Ryan Diduck
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The Limits Of Control: Why The Covid Lockdown Is Like A Game Of Snooker
Written on a typewriter in the fever dream of high lockdown, Ryan Diduck’s new book for Repeater, *The Limits of Control*, is a restless meditation on discipline and mediation. In this exclusive extract he recalls Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record break at the World Snooker Championship on 21 April 1997
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The Chameleons’ What Does Anything Mean? Basically, at 40
This relatively obscure, nihilistic and resigned second album by a near forgotten Mancunian post punk group was released decades before the birth of writer Lina Adams in the early 00s; so why does it speak so clearly to her life today?
Anniversary
Messing Up The Paintwork: The Fall’s This Nation’s Saving Grace at 40
‘Paintwork’, an album track from This Nation’s Saving Grace, is in some respects the key to the song-writing processes of The Fall. John Doran looks back to 1985 with some help from Mark E. Smith. Originally published in 2010
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The Strange World Of… Galaxie 500 Rarities
Thirty-five years after they burned slow and bright, Galaxie 500 remain one of indie rock’s most quietly untouchable constellations. In conversation with Dean Wareham, Naomi Yang and Damon Krukowski, Brian Coney provides ten points of entry to the dimmer recesses of their back catalogue
