Jem Finer

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Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer

Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues

Black Sky Thinking

Do You Have Plans For 4 Sept 2640? On Music Of Extreme Duration

Benjamin D. Duvall looks at what the longest musical performances in history teach us about the current climate crisis

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Longplayer Day Festival Set For This Month

The festival, focusing on themes of time and longevity, will feature a number of tQ-favourite artists, musicians and speakers

PREVIEW: Longplayer Day

We preview Longplayer Day, this week's London-based solstice arts festival, with Adam Scovell writing a piece on his Robert Macfarlane collaboration, Holloway

THIS WEEKEND: PLACE Festival

Aldeburgh Music's annual festival of landscape taking place this weekend, featuring Iain Sinclair, Jay Griffiths, Philip Hoare, Paul Morley and others

Previously Read

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Arcade Fire Plan Reflektor Deluxe Edition

Deluxe edition of band's 2013 album will feature six previously unreleased tracks

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Blur & Oasis Excluded From Britpop Comp

Three disc set out soon

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Berlin Atonal Revives Record Label

Collection of live recordings from Berlin Atonal 2014 by Cabaret Voltaire, Miles Whittaker, Fis and Abdulla Rashim will form label's first release since 1984

Things I Have Learned

Get On The Dyke & Ride! Jamie Thomson Cycles To Roadburn In The Netherlands

Intrepid man of pedal and metal Jamie Thomson tells the tale of his mission to cycle to the Roadburn Festival: featuring ferries, dykes, windmills, heaviosity, rude signage, useless national cycle trails, and 345 cheese & ham toasties

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LISTEN: Veronica Vasicka Remixed By Robert Hampson

Veronica Vasicka gets a metallic EBM remix from Loop's Robert Hampson

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LISTEN: New Ancient Instruments

Rupert Till adopts the moniker ‘Professor Chill’ for a new ancient instruments album

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2019 Penderyn Prize Shortlist Announced

The music book prize last night announced its 2019 shortlist

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Jem Finer

Articles 2

Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer

Do You Have Plans For 4 Sept 2640? On Music Of Extreme Duration

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