Wrote a handful of pieces for this, including a meditative wander around XTC’s Swindon (where I just so happen to have grown up). recordcollectormag.com/rc-specials/...
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2w agoOh!
Samuel Cox
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Host of Viridian Vault on Noods Radio. Writing in the Quietus, Cantilever, Bleet, and Reverb. South East Londoner. Keep cool, but care.
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2w ago
An essay about my emotional support krautrock album!!! seriously La Dũsseldorf is so SO good, do yourself a favor and play it while you read the essay youtu.be/pVGcwy8B-UY
La Düsseldorf (Full Album)
YouTube video by Ken Shabby
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John Doran@jahduran.bsky.social · 2mo agoWrote in @thequietus.com about the late, great Klaus Dinger and his first post-Neu! album with La Düsseldorf, which aspired to loom as large in the German consciousness as Gerd Müller, Franz Beckenbauer, und so weiter thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
“Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf.” La Düsseldorf’s La Düsseldorf at 50 | The Quietus
Samuel Cox celebrates the jubilant sound of the unwritten Krautrock manifesto in its final chapter, La Düsseldorf's debut album
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'Post-punk music at its best combined punk’s iconoclastic posturing with a relentless push towards creating technically intricate and artistically audacious music. Clark’s choreography presented much the same manifesto...' 40 Years of Hail The New Puritan buff.ly/bmNzBp4
This one was a long time in the making. On Michael Clark, Mark E Smith, Channel 4, and why were all far poorer for not having a publicly-owned broadcaster that indiscriminately champions the peculiar corners of art and culture.
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 2mo agoFeaturing The Fall and Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas's revolutionary mockumentary on dancer and choreographer Michael Clark first aired 40 years ago this month – looking back at it shows how far Channel 4 has fallen... 40 Years of Hail The New Puritan buff.ly/bmNzBp4
Ringo Starr photographs himself and Paul McCartney using a self timer in a San Francisco hotel room, 1964.
As he releases his fourth solo album The Mirror, Buck Meek talks BEST FIT through the songs that made him.
Buck Meek's favourite songs | Interview
As he releases The Mirror, Buck Meek talks the songs that made him
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Bayer Leverkusen player on the bench tonight with maybe the most ‘bass player from a cult 1980s D.C. hardcore band’ name I’ve ever heard: Axel Tape
Josh Simons knocking on your door, swivel-eyed, demanding 'are you now or have you ever ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ lived with a left-wing member of the Labour Party?'
Henry Dyer@direthoughts.com · 6mo agoExclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” at a PR agency’s work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/ @dansabbagh.bsky.social
See also anyone suddenly suggesting that government contracts with Palantir and OpenAI should be cancelled solely because Mandelson may have lobbied for them. There have been moral and ideological reasons to oppose the integration of those companies into our public services this whole time
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt's disturbing to see how Gordon Brown has whitewashed his reasons for reappointing Mandelson, and his own role in eroding democracy. Mandelson's official business was similar to his unauthorised scheming with Epstein. Don't let them rewrite history. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Talking Bee Gees, Lennon, Weezer and more with Ryan Jarman
THE LINE of BEST FIT@thelineofbestfit.com · 7mo agoAhead of The Cribs first album in five years, Ryan Jarman shares the pivotal songs in his life
Did this last year, gonna do it again now. Here are the four best albums I listened to for the first time in 2025
in zohran’s jon stewart interview he says he’s been using the ed koch quote in interviews "if you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. if you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist." and some kid shouted at him “12 out of 12 baby! take me away!”
Excellent salve to Ronay’s piece last week. ‘You want concerted international action against Israel for its crimes in Gaza and elsewhere? Good luck with that when you can’t even get a few violent far-right football fans turned away at Birmingham Airport.’
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo agoStanding with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
It would appear that the Tristero cartel have sabotaged my Shadow Ticket pre-order. My paranoia is off the charts right now
a shocking - and actually quite terrifying - open dereliction of this government's responsibility to its own citizens
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 10mo agoKeir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”
Bonnie Blue, absolutely run-of-the-mill pornstar name, but could also absolutely be a rousing Scots whaling song in the Roud folk song index
Finished Gravity’s Rainbow today. Seeing One Battle After Another tonight. Haven’t yet read Vineland. I’ve planned this all wrong
Geese really bring out the YouTube-comment “the kids are alright!” boomer in me. Getting Killed is a blast
Yaxley Lennon is funded by US billionaire Robert Shillman who also backs James O’Keefe, Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer and other far right figures. The apparent grassroots racist renaissance is astroturfed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
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London folk! Glue book fair at the ICA is on til 7pm tomorrow and well worth popping along to get, among other things, Bleet’s latest zine which features a short story by me
'The ‘Free Angela’ sticker within this prohibitively expensive set, nestled amongst trading-card style Lennon collectables, epitomises something peculiar about the 21st C: the packaging up, sanitising, and selling of the past.' #JohnLennon & the Gutting of 60s #Counterculture buff.ly/4bHhp7I
An excellent Black Sky Thinking on why a new £££ box set devoted to John Lennon & Yoko Ono's years of "activism" is further evidence that the legacy of both the 60s and rapacious 80s are now forever intertwined #fuckinghippies thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Imagine There's no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture | The Quietus
It was 1972, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI had decided that the longer John Lennon remained in the United States, the greater the likelihood that civil society itself would collapse into anarchy. Unfounde...
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Wrote about boxset tyranny, the (very) long 1980s, and the heroes and villains of the 60s/70s counterculture for the Quietus!
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 11mo agoAs Universal release an expensive box set celebrating #JohnLennon and #YokoOno's "political activism", Samuel Cox argues that it cheapens the legacy of more impactful, radical figures Imagine There’s no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture buff.ly/4bHhp7I
