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Name: Martin B.
City: Stockholm, SE

Born and bred in Croydon (don’t hold it against him), with a slight break in the cornish countryside at an early age. Six years ago Martin exchanged the daily commute for his love of Stockholm and launched a communications agency – AWorldBeneath.


Martin is of many talents – studied and practiced as a graphic designer, club promoter, festival promoter, DJ before moving into PR where he handled brands such as Vans, Umbro, Casio, 3 and ASOS.com. His group created the concept Umbro by Kim Jones for Umbro which was then taken out into The Nordics, Central Europe, Japan and USA where it proved a huge success.


On moving to Sweden, Martin created one of the best Scandinavian fashion stores BENEATH, a t-shirt brand Midnight Division, and then launched VICE in the Nordics. Now spending most of his time working for AWorldBeneath he is Account Manager for brands like Nike, Burton Snowboards, WeSC & Urban Outfitters. If you like lists, for the third year running he is included in the top 100 people in Swedish Fashion (there are only two non-Swedes in that list, Martin and one Italian).


posts by this scout:

Stockholm, Shout out loud!

(Mar 11, 2010) The Shout Out Louds’ new album work hits the stores this week and March see’s them tour Germany. The Shout Out L...

Robots, naked youth and prada

(Feb 23, 2010) Three very different films made by creatives for brands, all very odd but engaging and enjoyable each in their own way. In Novemb...

The Knife does Darwin

(Feb 22, 2010) This weekend i’m visiting Dansens Hus (House of Dance) a centre for contemporary dance in central Stockholm to see an oper...

Country gravy and a melting face have something in common

(Feb 21, 2010) Some highlights of regular Swedish TV this month, that I actually, I have to say,  enjoyed this month. 1. Robyn appears with Stay...

Demons from the north

(Feb 21, 2010) Sweden loves denim. We have so many denim brands and it’s usually hard to tell them apart but a relative newcomer Denim Dem...

Croydon & Stockholm

(Feb 19, 2010) The sound of Croydon is getting big in Sweden.  Promoters All Out Dub Step are the promoters piushing the scene forward with regu...

Swedish nightlife on your laptop

(Feb 18, 2010) It’s all about the party pictures. People love to revisit the parties they attended over the weekend or see who went to th...

Easy Money

(Jan 27, 2010) In January the big Swedish film launch will be Snabba Cash (Easy Money) based on the book by Jens Lapidus.  An exciting novel  o...

Why the TV?

(Jan 26, 2010) Downloading films and TV from the internet is something that everyone seems to do out here, even my cab driver the other day, as ...

Boutique Fräsh

(Jan 26, 2010) The Swedish street fashion scene is going from strength to strength, even though the swedish media mainly talks about Swedish fas...

Cosmonova

(Jan 25, 2010) Over Christmas I ventured a little out of town to check out Stockholm’s IMAX cinema ‘Cosmonova‘ which has its ho...

All around the office

(Jan 24, 2010) I rather like the area around my office; it’s an interesting residential area with some fantastic stores and the best coffe...

Sweden’s The Very Best

(Jan 24, 2010) Well, “The Very Best” played here recently at Debaser Medis and were a hit, they’d DJed as Radio Clit at a coupl...

The first North Korean Jeans

(Jan 24, 2010) This December saw the first ever jeans made in North Korea by Noko Jeans. It took the three Swedish entrepreneurs 2 and a half ye...

The forming of a fashion blog empire

(Jan 23, 2010) TV4.se/Style by Kling Elin Kling, one of the phenomenon’s of Sweden’s internet industry is the fashion blogger! One o...

BURGLAR.CO.LTD

(Jan 21, 2010) Founded in 2005, BURGLAR.CO.LTD is a Swedish street-fashion brand with a vintage look, inspired by functional motorbike apparel a...

So, what am I not watching?

(Jan 20, 2010) So, this winter, it’s not about what we are watching on TV it’s about what we are not watching on TV. What programs ar...

We don’t speak swedish we speak hip hop

(Jan 20, 2010) Adam Tensta A quick snapshot of Sweden’s hip hop scene which at the moment, Stockholm seems to be leading the way in the Nor...

Meat and Debauchery

(Jan 19, 2010) Martins baking Photographers make the best food bloggers! However, for 2 out of 3 in this case it is purely a side obsession to d...

Robyn 2010

(Jan 19, 2010) Robyn released her self titled album in 2005 and the new one is  to be released late Spring 2010 and is being recorded right no...

A Grand Hotel, in a sea of ok hotels

(Jan 18, 2010) One must go back and revisit the classics over Christmas. I had to go and revisit the classic Grand Hotel at least three times; i...

A BAR, A ROOM, A PUB and A Place

(Jan 18, 2010) Some new places have recently launched such as B.A.R from the same owners a LUX. Its very popular and has the cheapest oysters i...

Coffee + office = Coffice?

(Nov 11, 2009) This month seems to be full of new openings in Stockholm. Is it a coffee shop? Is it an office? No it’s ‘Coffice‘...

I feel I’ve been here before – time travel

(Nov 09, 2009) After HBO’s killer last season of Lost, which involved a hell of a lot of Time Travel, how would ABC react? Well, with a si...

Stockholm Film Festival

(Nov 05, 2009) In a couple of weeks it’s the Stockholm Film Festival again, and though the actual production of the festival is very amate...

Fever Ray Obsessive

(Nov 05, 2009) Fever Ray and everything that sprung from creative womb of ‘The Knife’ is interesting me this month. All of film make...

The Great Outdoors

(Nov 04, 2009) The great outdoors and the products created throughout the years to protect us from it are continuing to be interesting this seaso...

Stevie Nicks saved my life

(Nov 04, 2009) I was a bit of a David Lynch fan, that was until I saw Inland Empire which frankly was a jumbled up mess of a film, overly indul...

Riche is the epi-business-center of creative industry

(Oct 07, 2009) chandelier at Riche bar Not much changes in Stockholm’s nightlife when it comes to newly built places but the “it” c...

Julian Red and Sweden’s version of APC

(Oct 07, 2009) Lots of activity among the Swedish fashion labels.  Julian Red has launched a new line called 3-J. It’s going to be BIG! One o...

True Blood actor has acting in his…blood?

(Oct 06, 2009) As TV comes out in the USA I like to watch it immediately - none of this waiting around for 6 months or more. Three shows that a...

Robotnick toys with old and new

(Oct 06, 2009) I met up with Alexander Robotnick in Stockholm recently, as much as I love all the old tracks plus he really plays a great selecti...

‘Avatar’ is some of the best CGI ever

(Oct 06, 2009) James Cameron’s Avatar is some of the best CGI I have seen in ages. The trailer looks great. Even though Neil Blomkamp’s ...

Creators Inn offers free hotel rooms for creators

(Oct 05, 2009) I just discovered I could share my journeys with my friends, share travel tips and maybe on that odd occasion officially arrange t...