David Lowery
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Film
High Tech, Old English: Beowulf And The Green Knight
The refurbishment of ancient stories with cutting edge visual effects projects current anxieties without thinking about futuristic storytelling - but Tom Duggins asks what might have changed in the last 14 years since the last big take on an Old English classic
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Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed
At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole. Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?
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Why Study Art When You Can Make It: The Strange World Of… This Heat
40 years after This Heat’s debut performance Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward are playing together for the first time since 1982 at London’s Café Oto. To celebrate we look at their fresh and forceful music that proved to be so far ahead of its time. All band photographs by Lesley Evans, courtesy of This Heat
Strange World Of...
Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse: The Strange World Of… Daniel Higgs
Daniel Higgs has built a legacy in the pursuit of his own spiritual truth. Ahead of an appearance at Terraforma festival he talks Matthew Neale through his back catalogue, with detours via mass media indoctrination, a drive-by shooting, and the mystery of how cassettes work
