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vivabrighton<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> 28. <strong>June</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />
editorial<br />
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I look up the word ‘vintage’ in my 1973 edition of the Shorter<br />
Oxford English Dictionary. Despite its name, this publication<br />
is a 2,732-page two-volume affair, which takes up a good deal<br />
of space on the office bookshelf, and is rarely consulted now<br />
that you can google anything you want to know in half the<br />
time. Interestingly, the dictionary does not cite any definitions<br />
of the word that aren’t applicable to wine, which suggests that<br />
today’s use of ‘vintage’ – to denote anything classy and old (my<br />
definition) – is, well, pretty modern. And pretty modish, to<br />
boot. Can you pass a day in <strong>Brighton</strong> without reading, hearing, or saying the word? Nowadays<br />
we have companies devoted to ‘vintage’, whether that be fashion, or transport, or records, or<br />
furniture, or even a whole way of life. In this issue we explore the world of ‘vintage’, from a chap<br />
who lives as if it were the turn of the (twentieth) century, to another who sells pre-1987 bikes,<br />
from a vinyl dealer to a bunch of old-style stage performers, from a photographer who still uses<br />
Victorian methods to <strong>Brighton</strong>’s historic link with the iconic Isetta bubble car. In fact one of the<br />
few ‘vintage’ subjects we don’t cover is the world of wine, in which the term denotes wine culled<br />
in a particular (not necessarily long ago) year. Which might, looking back, be something of an<br />
oversight. Tant pis. Enjoy the issue…<br />
The Team<br />
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EDITOR: Alex Leith alex@vivabrighton.com<br />
DEPUTY EDITOR: Steve Ramsey steveramsey@vivabrighton.com<br />
ART DIRECTOR: Katie Moorman katie@vivabrighton.com<br />
PHOTOGRAPHER AT LARGE: Adam Bronkhorst<br />
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Rebecca Cunningham<br />
ADVERTISING: Anya Zervudachi anya@vivabrighton.com, Nick Metcalf nickmetcalf@vivabrighton.com,<br />
PUBLISHERS: Nick Williams nick@vivabrighton.com, Lizzie Lower lizzie@vivamagazines.com<br />
CONTRIBUTORS: Black Mustard, Joe Decie, Nione Meakin, Chloë King,<br />
John Helmer, Ben Bailey, Lizzie Enfield, Joda, Jim Stephenson and Yoram Allon<br />
<strong>Viva</strong> is based at <strong>Brighton</strong> Junction, 1A Isetta Square, BN1 4GQ<br />
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