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EDITORIAL Welcome to the August issue of Rip It Up. This month we investigate boganism. Who are bogans and does being a bogan mean? And we can’t look at bogan culture without some examination of hard rock and metal, the two musical genres most central to bogan life. Our Hamilton reporter Kate Powell has produced an in-depth examination the large, if unheralded, Kiwi metal scene. She also talks to iconic Swedish metallers Refused who have just released their first new album in 15 years. Our other main feature examines the life and times of Paul Martin, the driving force behind the hugely popular Devilskin, and the man considered by many to be the godfather of the New Zealand metal scene. Paul Martin and Riccardo Ball offer their “best of” metal albums and we celebrate Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, King of the Bogans, and review Motorhead’s new album Bad Magic. New Zealand’s foremost expert on boganism, Dave Snell, has contributed as well as two bogan filmmakers, Jason Lei Howden (whose bogan metal movie Deathgasm is doing the rounds as we speak), and Greg Page, director of the classic bogan horror film The Locals. We ask New Zealand’s greatest satirist John Clarke if his alter-ego Fred Dagg is a bogan and John discusses Kiwi culture in his lively feature New Zealand: A User’s Guide. All of this and a whole lot more. This is Rip It Up, on the streets since 1977.
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