Celebrate or Ignore

London: thriving concrete jungle, an ever-evolving electric utopia. It is time for the hidden gems of our city to be wrenched out from the dark crevices where they are kept. Time to shine a light on the strange and beautiful things that flourish in our underground clubs and dingy back streets. Time for its creatures of the night to be exposed for the cutting-edge individuals they are.

Housed within our minds for such a long time has been the desire to create a publication that celebrates all the creativity and wonder that we are constantly stumbling upon, and uncovering in bizarre places throughout this labyrinth of a city.

Everywhere we go we meet people telling us stories of what they’re doing, what’s going on around them, from the extraordinary and the fascinating, the absurd and the hilarious. Things that we would never have known about, had we not ventured upon them first-hand.

Since setting our sights on this endeavour, we have been avidly scrabbling away, making notes in the darkness of clubs, rolling studio rocks over to see what’s underneath, screeching to a halt in the street when we spy imaginative treats, and following whispers that come from every corner of London. Arthur And Albert magazine aims to seek out and celebrate the highest caliber of talent in London.

We are no longer interested in the culture of ‘cool’. AAA persists, not to establish a uniform trend of what we ‘should’ be in London but to emphasize the inspiration all around us in our own city.

In this, our first issue, we’ve purely started to scratch the surface of these, ever evolving, subject matters. We are poised to dive in further and bring you more delights. We hope you enjoy it!