Roughler

The Roughler Magazine chronicled life in Ladbroke Grove in the 80s and 90s before the last Bohemians were forced out. The Roughler was single-handedly produced by Ray Roughler Jones, a refugee from Swansea, and contained contributions from The Clash, Will Self, Jock Scott, Shane McGowan, Neneh Cherry, Joe Rush of Mutoid Waste, Keith and Kevin Allen plus local heroes such as Steve Underground, John The Hat and Ian Bone of Class War.

It provided a focus for a shambolic group of creative people and offshoots included the infamous Roughler Gallery in an abandoned Chinese takeaway in NoGo (North of Golborne Road). The Roughler chronicled the rise and fall of the Portobello Panto , through the internecine Panto Wars of the early 90s when Anna Chancellor and her dastardly gang of toffs put on a rival production.

RoughlerTV was launched at Portobello Film Festival 2007 with a daily webcast and in July 2008, RoughlerTV exhibited psychogeographic installations on the top floor of the Louis T Blouin Institute in 'It Happened Here', the opening of 'Art After Dark'. Five weeks later, they were invited back to to stage A Quality Shambles, a post-Situationist Happening.

[http://www.youtube.com/RoughlerTV RoughlerTV]

[http://www.myspace.com/theroughler The Roughler Myspace page]

[http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/talkpics/talk-vague06.html Counter-Cultural History of Portobello]