John Higgs
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An Extract from Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story Of Doctor Who by John Higgs
John Higgs, author of books about the KLF, William Blake and James Bond, has now turned his eye to Doctor Who. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers Ben Wheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis...
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast Five: John Higgs On Iron Maiden & Eddie The Head
The fifth in our series of subscriber only podcasts sees KLF and William Blake author John Higgs talking about the deep, esoteric history of the heavy metal mascot that embodies the spirit of one of the world's biggest bands
Anniversary
The Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy By Robert Anton Wilson At 40
Revisiting the work of the American futurist and self-described agnostic mystic, Robert Anton Wilson, forty years since the publication of his Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, Sean Kitching finds the author’s questing vision more vital and necessary today than it has ever been
Books
The Heart Of The Original: John Higgs On Alistair Fruish’s The Sentence
In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works
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Aide Memoire: The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost Interviewed
Billy Reeves of Theaudience had his life thrown upside down in 2001 by a terrible car accident, he tells Fergal Kinney, and now his new band, The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost, have released an album of old songs he can't even remember writing. N.B. readers who have been in traumatic traffic accidents may find some of the descriptions in this interview difficult to read
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Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music
John Freeman heads up to Sunderland to eat falafel and meet with the Brewis brothers to find out why the sinewy pop of Field Music’s new album Commontime was inspired by fatherhood, Hall & Oates and hatred for a certain brand of 4x4 car
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As Wide As The Universe: Dead Can Dance Interviewed
We were offered a very brief phone conversation with Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance recently. There was nothing for it but to activate our many teeted, lizard agent from Interzone, Jonny Mugwump, whose feverish brain and forked tongue work in double time...
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Organised Chaos: Swell Maps Interviewed
With a flurry of recent activity, including reissues and the promise of a book, Duncan Seaman talks to Jowe Head, Biggles Books and Phones Sportsman, as well as Geoff Travis of Rough Trade about the cult DIY band. Home page band portrait by Caroline Kraabel
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Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed
Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'
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Beautiful Noise: Rhys Chatham Interviewed
In this lost interview from 2009, Rhys Chatham talks to David Moats about doom metal, gentrification and drum & bass as a collaboration between him and Charlemagne Palestine comes to St. John's Church in Hackney on Thursday as part of William Basinski and Art Assembly's Arcadia series
