Mary Anne Hobbs

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A Condition of the Space: Mary Anne Hobbs Interviewed

Ahead of a new Sunday show on BBC 6 Music and an appearance at MIF, the broadcaster and DJ shares some ideas about process, work ethic and a formative year spent living on a bus. Words by John Doran. Main portrait by Brett Walker

A Quietus Interview

Hold The Phone: TAAHLIAH Interviewed

After appearing at Mary Anne Hobbs' All Queens night at Fabric and brand new single 'Bodies', TAAHLIAH speaks to Skye Butchard about her ambitious and emotional next chapter

Baker's Dozen

Beloved Transmissions: Mary Anne Hobbs’ Favourite Albums

Ahead of her curation at the Manchester International Festival, Mary Anne Hobbs guides Daniel Dylan Wray on an inspiring trip through 13 records that shaped her life

News 14

Field Day Enlists Mary Anne Hobbs To Curate A Stage At 2023 Event

Deena Abdelwahed, Anastasia Kristensen and more will play Hobbs' All Queens takeover

Mary Anne Hobbs Details All Queens Residencies For BBC Radio 6 Music

The first edition featuring Kelly Lee Owens is available to listen to now

David Sylvian To Appear On BBC Radio 6 Music

'Spirit Of Sylvian' will be the musician's first major engagement with the media for 15 years

Mary Anne Hobbs Teams Up With Fabric For International Women’s Day Event

All Queens will see an all-female bill take over the London club this March

Sunn O))) Share Second Preview Of New Live Album

The excerpt from 'Pyroclasts F' features guest contributions from Anna von Hausswolff

Sunn O))) Detail New Live Album, ‘Metta, Benevolence’

Out later this month, the release includes recordings from a 2019 BBC performance that took place at the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

Dubstep’s Early Years To Be Focus Of New Photo-Book

Photographer Georgina Cook's 'Drumz Of The South' takes its name from her blog that charted the development of the scene and genre

Thom Yorke Shares Mix For BBC Radio 6 Music

The half-hour selection includes tracks by Moor Mother, Q-Tip and The Fall, among others

Burial & Kode9 Record Exclusive BBC Mix

Burial & Kode9's mix for BBC 6 Music features Jlin, SOPHIE and more

Paint With Mary Anne Hobbs & Jeremy Deller!

Hobbs and Deller encourage listeners to make and send in art in time to the Sunday morning show on 6 Music as part of art-filled weekend

Dave Haslam: Interviews Round-Up

Writer speaking to Mary Anne Hobbs, Paul Morley, Neneh Cherry and more in the coming weeks

Radio-Activity V: In Praise Of Mary Anne Hobbs

Jude Rogers tunes in to the new weekend breakfast show from Mary Anne Hobbs, and finds a wonderful antidote to the blokey shouting of weekday mornings

Flying Lotus Discusses New Album

FlyLo on Mary Anne Hobbs's Xfm podcast discusses Until The Quiet Comes

Mary Anne Hobbs To Present Xfm Shows 5 Days A Week

Champion of all manner of electronic brilliance to present a relaunched Music:Response show from Monday to Thursday every week

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There’s Something About Stanley: Kubrick’s Strange Science Of Obsession

Jasun Horsley examines the impulses that drive Kubrick's formidable oeuvre and asks what it all means to his legion of obsessive fans

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Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit

As Steven Soderbergh and Baz Luhrmann consider their retirement from feature films, Tristan Bath argues that it's time for a few veteran Hollywood directors to be put out to pasture

Film

Goose Fare: Only God Forgives Reviewed

Patrick Smith picks a fight with Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's follow up to the acclaimed Drive

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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

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You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

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Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

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Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

Film

Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

Film

Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

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Articles 3

A Condition of the Space: Mary Anne Hobbs Interviewed

Hold The Phone: TAAHLIAH Interviewed

Beloved Transmissions: Mary Anne Hobbs’ Favourite Albums

News 14

Field Day Enlists Mary Anne Hobbs To Curate A Stage At 2023 Event

Mary Anne Hobbs Details All Queens Residencies For BBC Radio 6 Music

David Sylvian To Appear On BBC Radio 6 Music

Mary Anne Hobbs Teams Up With Fabric For International Women’s Day Event

Sunn O))) Share Second Preview Of New Live Album

Sunn O))) Detail New Live Album, ‘Metta, Benevolence’

Dubstep’s Early Years To Be Focus Of New Photo-Book

Thom Yorke Shares Mix For BBC Radio 6 Music

Burial & Kode9 Record Exclusive BBC Mix

Paint With Mary Anne Hobbs & Jeremy Deller!

Dave Haslam: Interviews Round-Up

Radio-Activity V: In Praise Of Mary Anne Hobbs

Flying Lotus Discusses New Album

Mary Anne Hobbs To Present Xfm Shows 5 Days A Week

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