The Roughler Magazine chronicled life in Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove is a road in west London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is also sometimes the name given informally to the immediate area surrounding the road. Running from Notting Hill in the south to Kensal Green in the north, it is located in North Kensington and straddles...

 in the 1980s and 1990s before the last Bohemians were forced out. The Roughler was single-handedly produced by Ray Roughler Jones, a refugee from Swansea

Swansea

Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...

, and contained contributions from The Clash

The Clash

The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...

, Will Self

Will Self

William Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time...

, Jock Scott

Jock Scott

John Wyeth "Jock" Scott, II was a lawyer and college professor in Alexandria, who served three terms from District 26 in the Louisiana House of Representatives, first as a Democrat and then as a Republican . He was defeated in a race for the Louisiana State Senate in 1987...

, Shane McGowan, Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry

Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...

, Joe Rush

Joe Rush

Joe Rush influenced by the film 'Mad Max' and 'Judge Dredd' comics, was the co-originator of the travelling multi media art group Eat my face, an underground art collective who specialised in building large scale installations out of waste material...

 of Mutoid Waste, Keith and Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen may refer to:* Kevin Allen , Welsh-born English actor* Kevin Allen , American football player* Kevin Allen , American race car driver...

 plus local heroes such as Steve Underground, John The Hat and Ian Bone

Ian Bone

Ian Bone , is a prominent British anarchist and an active publisher of anarchist newspapers and tabloids, such as Class War and The Bristolian...

 of Class War.

It provided a focus for a shambolic group of creative people and offshoots included the infamous Roughler Gallery in an abandoned Chinese takeaway

Chinese Takeaway

"Chinese Takeaway" is a song by The Adicts taken from their second album Sound of Music.-The Adicts:* Keith 'Monkey' Warren - Vocals* Mel Ellis - Bass* Pete Dee Davison - Guitar * Michael 'Kid' Dee Davison - Drums...

 in NoGo (North of Golborne Road

Golborne Road

Golborne Road is a street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London's Notting Hill. The road runs east from Portobello Road to Kensal Road.The nearest Underground stations are Westbourne Park and Ladbroke Grove....

). The Roughler chronicled the rise and fall of the Portobello Panto, through the internecine Panto Wars of the early 90s when Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor

-Family:Chancellor was born in Richmond, London, England, the daughter of the Hon. Mary Alice Jolliffe and John Paget Chancellor. Through her mother's mother, Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, Chancellor is the great-granddaughter of The Hon. Raymond Aquith and the great-great-granddaughter of Prime...

 and her dastardly gang of toffs put on a rival production.

RoughlerTV was launched at Portobello

Portobello

-Places:England* Portobello, West Midlands* Portobello Road, London* Portobellow, an estate in Wakefield, West YorkshireIreland* Portobello, Dublin, IrelandNew Zealand* Portobello, New ZealandPanama* Portobelo, PanamaScotland* Portobello, Edinburgh...

 Film Festival 2007 with a daily webcast and in July 2008, RoughlerTV exhibited psychogeographic installations on the top floor of the Louis T Blouin Institute in 'It Happened Here', the opening of 'Art After Dark'. Five weeks later, they were invited back to stage A Quality Shambles, a post-Situationist Happening. In 2010, Tangent Books published Ray Roughler Jones' memoir, Drowning On Dry Land, which was described as "absurdly brilliant" by Jake Arnott

Jake Arnott

Jake Arnott is a British novelist, author of The Long Firm and other novels. Most of his works are crime novels, and include homosexual characters...

. This book released on September 1st tell of Ray's travails in Swansea, Ladbroke Grove and San Francisco. Rhys Ifans suggests 'I knew Ray as a Swansea Jack, But I never knew he was the Swansea Jack Kerouac'. Jones was voted Notting Hill Local Personality of the Year 2011 by mynottinghill website.

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