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Albert Hammond Jr
ALBERT HAMMOND JR.
Musician, Writer, Actor
Tell us who you are and what you do.
My name is Albert Hammond Jr and I play guitar in a band called The Strokes as well as front my own solo thing. I also ride motorbikes, scuba dive and now I dabble in movies.
There’s already been a lot written about you on your music career. Tell us about the movie stuff you’re dabbling in.
Well I’ve always liked it. I went to film school for...
David Chambers
DAVID CHAMBERS
DAVID CHAMBERSMaster Tailor
Tell us who you are and what you do with Basic Rights
I’m a tailor and a craftsman first and a designer second. I’ve been designing and making hand-made suits for decades for all kinds of interesting people.
For Basic Rights? I create patterns and designs that end up as the final pieces. The stuff you see here.
Can you tell us about your background?
Well I’ve been in the business a long time. I started out at Anderson...
Matthias Schaller
Palette of Marc Chagall from series ‘Das Meisterstück’ (The Masterpiece)
MATTHIAS SCHALLER
Photographic Artist
Matthias Schaller is a German born photographic artist producing abstract portraits of a variety of subjects, from individual figures to entire nations. His work is regularly shown across the world. Basic Rights caught up with Matthis to talk ideas, what makes punk attitude and why he sometimes “behaves like a fish.”
Hi Matthias
Hi, how are you?
Yes,...
Freddie Cowan
Matt Hitt
MATT HITT
Drowners
Tell us who you and what you’re up to
I’m from Wales originally and moved to New York in 2011 basically as a model (embarassingly). I started a band while I was over here so right now am balancing those two things.
I’d already written a load of songs before I moved and I basically came out here to find people to play them with. So I started the band. That was easier than I expected.
Mostly because every other fucker in New...