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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
Baker's Dozen
Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums
As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
Black Sky Thinking
They Don’t Know: Jude Rogers On Kirsty MacColl
When asked to write the sleeve notes for a new box set covering the two decade-long career of Kirsty MacColl, Jude Rogers realised that most people tended to associate the singer with two things, yet the story told by See The Girl, is one of artistic richness and talent in the face of an industry that barely cared
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There’s Nowt So Weird As Folk: John Francis Flynn interviewed
John Francis Flynn is just about to release one of the year's finest albums, Look Over The Wall, See The Sky. Here he talks to John Doran about the violence and otherworldliness of traditional music and the radical symbol of the mole. Scroll down feature for the premiere of the Willie Crotty video
Rock's Backpages
When Mark Met Nick and Shane: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse
From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)
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Baker's Dozen
Escape To The Country: Willy Vlautin Of Richmond Fontaine’s Favourite LPs
Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism
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To End All War: An Interview With Diamanda Galás
Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment
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Catching Trout & Minimalist Composition: S. Carey Interviewed
There's nothing The Quietus respects more than a man who's handy with a fishing rod, which is why we asked Daniel Ross to chat to S. Carey about catching trout - as well as his debut album _All We Grow_ and drumming with Bon Iver
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The Human Machine: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Interviewed
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects
