Gustav Temple meets the Deep Purple frontman to discuss hard rock hair and clothes, Little Richard and Terry-Thomas’ house on Ibiza. Where are you from originally?Hounslow, West London. I used to play on Heathrow before the airport was built. Hounslow Heath, it was called, where once Dick Turpin used to ride, I believe, and I… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple reviews the new sartorial tome by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams. First there was I am Dandy (2013), followed by We Are Dandy (2016). We seem to have skipped You Are Dandy (because you are probably not) and now, thirteen years after the first collection, They Are Dandy hits bookshelves across the world.… … Keep Reading
Our second saunter sans purpose during more inclement conditions. Button up your overcoat, pluck a wilted flower from a garden and stick it in your buttonhole, shake the dust from your finest brolly as you unfurl it, and prepare to sally forth on a chill winter’s day in London. The second Grand Flâneur Winter Walk… … Keep Reading
The Chap makes a smooth transition from gentlemen’s periodical to members’ club. When The Chap magazine ceased publication in 2025, we realised that what we had built was so much more than a gentlemen’s periodical. Having hosted a multitude of social events, musical gatherings and public protests against the forces of blandification, we saw that… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple takes a liquid journey around the world to see whether single malt whisky can be trusted from anywhere except Scotland. To some readers (and they may be right) is is already blasphemous even to suggest that whisky can come from anywhere except Scotland. But when one discovers that whisky is also made in… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple assesses a new Irish Whiskey with rather ghoulish credentials. The word ‘sexton’ derives from the Mediaeval Latin word sacristanus – ‘custodian of sacred objects’. A sexton is ‘a person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger’. The gravedigger in Hamlet calls himself a sexton, for example. The typical… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple nosedives into rums that don’t come from where they used to come from, because they are either made or refined right here on these craggy shores. Over the last decade or so, rum has been slowly shaking off its old reputation as something to swill in discotheques mixed with Coca-Cola. But only recently… … Keep Reading
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Gustav Temple reviews the new sartorial tome by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams. First there was I am Dandy (2013), followed by We Are Dandy (2016). We seem to have skipped You Are Dandy (because you are probably not) and now, thirteen years after the first collection, They Are Dandy hits bookshelves across the world.…
Our second saunter sans purpose during more inclement conditions. Button up your overcoat, pluck a wilted flower from a garden and stick it in your buttonhole, shake the dust from your finest brolly as you unfurl it, and prepare to sally forth on a chill winter’s day in London. The second Grand Flâneur Winter Walk…
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.