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Kevin EG Perry is a writer for NME, Vice, The Guardian, British GQ and Lonely Planet Traveller.

His work has also been published by Playboy, Time Out, Shortlist, The Independent, The Telegraph, Easyjet Traveller, Condé Nast Traveller, The Quietus, The Fader, Mixmag, Dazed & Confused, Loaded, Drowned In Sound, Mojo, Exeunt and others.

He was shortlisted for The Guardian's International Development Journalism Award in 2009. His foreign correspondence has also appeared in New Internationalist as well as on behalf of UNICEF, Oxfam, VSO, the Fairtrade Foundation and the World Health Organisation.

He can be contacted at kevinegperry[at]gmail.com

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@brettmartin Can happily confirm this is true. 3 days ago
Happy birthday to the greatest to ever crack open a rhyming dictionary https://t.co/8Fd2mMZFF1 4 days ago
@ztubbz @Truman_Black I trust you'll be lenient next time I decide to file 6,000 words 4 days ago
@ztubbz @AndrewTrendell Genuinely surprised I've never forced you to listen to this at a party. They're by the grea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
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There is no sound on earth more joyful than Mavis Staples singing, except maybe Mavis Staples laughing.

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"Ooh, oh... Is there a Kevin EG Perry in the audience?"

"Outside on the boulevard I saw a half-naked young girl on roller skates being mauled by two huge dogs. They were Great Danes, apparently running loose. Both had their paws on her shoulder, and the gray one had her head in its mouth. But there was no noise, and nobody seemed to notice. I grabbed a fork off the bar and rushed outside to help her, giving the bogus astrologer another slap in the nuts on my way out. When I got to the street, the dogs were still mauling the girl. I stabbed the big one in the ribs with my fork, which sank deep into the tissue. The beast yelped crazily and ran off with its tail between its legs. The other one quickly released its grip on the girl's head and snarled at me. I slashed at it with the fork, and that was enough for the brute. It backed off and slunk away toward Muscle Beach. I took the girl back to the Buffalo Club and applied aloe to her wounds. The astrologer was gone, and we had the lounge to ourselves." - From 'Doomed Love At The Taco Stand' (The waiter told me a story about Hunter leaving a hat at the bar and them sending him a ransom note for it.)

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