Pikes Magazine

We moved away from party animals for the cover shot and moved on to tight swimming trunks. Taking things up a gear in a very weird year, 2020’s magazine is the most packed yet, featuring Jarvis Cocker on his legendary show in our restaurant, old friends of the hotel Laura Whitmore, Fatboy Slim, star hairdresser Lyndell Mansfield and Bushwhacka!, as well as with a new friend of the hotel, the wonderful Emily Malice.

There’s a wine fuelled chat with Irvine Welsh and Carl Barât, who’d come out for our Literary Festival, the stories of how they came to be at the hotel from resident DJ Camilo, long standing legendary bartender Emil and the world’s smallest drag queen, BabyJane. Plus there’s a great big feature on the brilliant Pikes Cocktail Book with photographer Kim Lightbody and some of her beautiful boozy shots.

Magazine Photography: Dan Wilton
Jarvis Cocker/Bushwhacka! Portraits: Elliot Young
Editor: Josh Josh Jones
Design & Art Direction: Big Active

Here’s the Pikes Magazine 2018 issue. That cover is an absolute winner – set up with the crackiest fox DJ and using the pool bar as a background. This issue, celebrating the characters that make up one of the world’s most famous rock n roll hotels, features Artwork behind his home bar, globally acclaimed photographer Diana Gomez who had just had a show of her work at Pikes, our cultural Attaché DJ Harvey, Seth Troxler telling us about the madness of his birthday parties where he hires the entire hotel, we chat to Ruby Murry, Rock Nights’ Diego Calvo, Star Lover vintage wear, Warren Byrne on shamanism, General Sam Sam’s guide to Ibiza, and there are tales of Bon Jovi, Tony Curtis and Grace Jones’s stays from Mr Tony Pike himself.

There’s also a smoking hot picture of Mika and a massive close up double page spread picture of one of Lee’s delicious and famous Sunday Roasts.

Magazine Photography: Dan Wilton
Editor: Josh Josh Jones
Design & Art Direction: Big Active