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When I first walked into this place I thought it was just a hipster coffee shop with audio equipment on…

Film Review: Perfect DaysWim Wenders discovers tranquility in Tokyo's toilets

Komorebi (pronounced kō-mō-leh-bē) is a Japanese term that combines the kanjis for tree, leak, and sun, describing the beauty of…

From the Magazine | 16.07.25

Iain's AdviceDear Iain, I can’t help flushing the toilet before I’ve finished peeing

Words by Iain Trickett Illustration by Maxwell Paternoster First published in Issue 3 of BOTHER magazine December 2024 Dear Iain…

From the Magazine | 11.07.25

You need to shake the etch a sketchAn interview with author Benjamin Myers

Words by Gary Inman Illustration by Andy Garside First published in Issue 3 of BOTHER magazine December 2024 When we…

From the Magazine | 06.07.25

Love, Yan.‘People generally, you know, in the art world, they just want to know about the arty things. They forget that this is a bloody journey and it’s massive. It’s about sleeping in a different smelly bed every night. Really, it’s like sweat, tears, dust, blood’.

Yan Wang Preston is talking to us about her epic journey to create an epic piece of art. Mother River…

From the Magazine | 29.06.25

BEYOND ZEROThe literary world just wasn't ready for Gabriel Krauze's first novel. Will they have the stomach for his second?

In 2020 Gabriel Krauze published Who They Was. It was his first novel and it was longlisted for the Booker…

From the Magazine | 22.06.25

Daily Stoke For The Average BlokeHow lonely lockdown car park skate sessions turned into the Dadlands scene.

Despite the feeling of being constantly on the edge of an impending apocalypse, we live in a time when being…

From the Magazine | 15.06.25

The PinnacleA new book charts the early influence of British manufacturers on what has become the stratospheric outdoor clothing market.

You don’t need us to tell you that the outdoor clothing market is enormous. Folks who haven’t set foot on…

From the Magazine | 08.06.25

You! Yes, You! Stop That!From Dartmoor to Westminster, Ed wants to roam. Despite the prison it's well known for, Dartmoor is one of the areas of England with the best public access rights. But all is not well on the moors...

It bothers me that my freedom to responsibly roam the open country of England, restricted as it already is, faces…

From the Magazine | 01.06.25

Dog DirtFearing for the future of humanity? Don't. The answer lies in our willingness to embrace pet poop.

Archaeologists just make stuff up. They’re guessing. Piecing together stories from digging through buildings, rubbish and shite is all they’ve…

From the Magazine | 25.05.25

Life on the EdgeGet tooled up for the fight against disposable culture...

Carry an axe or an 8in carving knife into most shops and the staff will either flee or call the…

From the Magazine | 18.05.25

PO-TA-TOESGet in my belly.

“Po-ta-toes,’ said Sam. ‘The Gaffer’s Delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly… if you turn over a new…

From the Magazine | 11.05.25

This is Two Tree HillIt is just one tiny pixel of our vast and largely inaccessible countryside that laws exclude you from. Michael Fordham has had enough...

Two Tree Hill is a tump smack in the middle of Farmborough Common in the county of Bath and North…

From the Magazine | 05.05.25

Different strokesIt's not wild. It's awesome.

Just 20 minutes from the centre of Copenhagen, a short walk from a nondescript Metro stop, through a small parkland…

From the Magazine | 27.04.25

You chose to be here now bloody embrace it!Chopper cosplay to a Helsinki jazz fest? No, wait, come back...

Let’s start at the end when everything fucks up. Four hours from Roterdam and the ferry home, after riding my…

From the Magazine | 20.04.25

Uncle JohnA sudden death opens a door to a hidden life...

They say that people take secrets to the grave. As it turned out, we only found out about my Uncle…

From the Magazine | 13.04.25

Forged ArtworksWith skills learnt in a Tokyo steel mill, refined in a London college and perfected in a Welsh pig shed, Junko Mori is one of a kind.

North Wales can feel like the Wild West. A forgotten land, two hours from any motorway, microclimatic weather flicking from…

From the Magazine | 30.03.25

MegalithicBeyond the crowded and fenced-off Stonehenge, the British Isles are peppered with towering, prehistoric standing stone sites silently awaiting your visit. George Parr leads us on tour.

Across the breadth of the British Isles, there is no view more iconic than the towering trilithons of Stonehenge. Over…

From the Magazine | 23.03.25

Iain's AdviceIain Trickett, the founder and owner of the clothing and lifestyle brand, TRiCKETT England only likes football for the shirts, once almost stepped on a landmine in Croatia and is, somehow, the official agony uncle of BOTHER.

Dear Iain I am ailing with a special kind of midlife crisis. I constantly dwell on a catalogue of micro…

From the Magazine | 16.03.25

What happened to Anarchy?In the late 1970s and early 80s anarchy was on people's lips, minds and jackets. Why? And what happened to it?

Almost 50 years on and the Sex Pistols’ debut single, Anarchy in the UK is still such a provocative and dangerous…

From the Magazine | 09.03.25

Interpreting Sonic NatureCover Artist for Issue 1 of Bother, Drew Millward discusses colour-blindness, being school governor and why his art is NOT psychedelic. Wait… What?

Viewed as a portfolio, Drew Millward’s art is a dizzying tropical storm of swirls, skulls, fanged creatures and fairy tale…

From the Magazine | 02.03.25

Wild LandsCan lynx, even wolves, be reintroduced to the UK? Author and conservationist Mary Colwell believes so, but you might have to sacrifice your cat.

There is a landscape I know well where lynx and wolves roam free, predators that spread a potent mix of…

From the Magazine | 23.02.25

Van life is shitSix years in a converted delivery van opened Andy's eyes to a reality that social media never did...

You’re getting bored of your office job, routine biting hard. The daily drudge is feeling like a set of chains…

From the Magazine | 10.02.25

Button itFrom Hebden Bridge to Wuppertal on an electric cargo bike

As he leaves on a 700-mile cargo bike round trip to Germany to collect 55kg of special trouser fasteners, Ed…

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