Here at The Eccentric City we will be updating this website regularly, posting excerpt features, articles originally in hardcopy print.

Whilst we don’t prescribe what the content of our editions should include, we always make sure that we feature down to earth genuine (and perhaps unsensational) life stories and personal experiences. So much so, that we are excited by the approach and dedication that authenticates a real life experience.

In many ways, this newspaper intentionally sidesteps the convention of what typifies newspaper tabloids, both in terms of design and content. Clearly we see this as a marvellous and relatively cheap way of staying offline, out and about to hand-out papers and elicit conversations as part of our investigations into the (extra) ordinary.

Very much as a return to ‘the pamphleteers’ - The Eccentric City hands out newspapers, finding spaces outside the planning and policy gentry, who act on ‘our’ behalf. In the days of pamphleteering for example, a key aim was to challenge the politics (the religion) of the day and to passionately reorientate the authoritarianism of dominant culture.

The Eccentric City publishes a passionate state of affairs which celebrates diversity and common decency without the need to reform or commercialise. We would hate this paper to become a glossy magazine, a so called sophisticated acceptance of mainstream culture. From that point of view, we are both pro-culture in a countercultural way, as well as agit-prop.  Eccentricity is celebrated wholeheartedly.

-Harry Palmer, Editor and Co-founder/Publisher.