Alexei Monroe
Black Sky Thinking
We’re Free? What Are You Being Served Tells Us About Brexit
As the EU waves goodbye on Brexit Day, Alexei Monroe looks at two declining institution full of sexist attitudes and obsessed with better days that never really were and joins the dots between England and Grace Brothers' Department Store of 70s sitcom Are You Being Served
Black Sky Thinking
We’re Free? What Are You Being Served Tells Us About Brexit
As the EU waves goodbye on Brexit Day, Alexei Monroe looks at two declining institution full of sexist attitudes and obsessed with better days that never really were and joins the dots between England and Grace Brothers' Department Store of 70s sitcom Are You Being Served
Black Sky Thinking
The Great Divide: On Laibach In North Korea
As Laibach return from their controversial visit to Pyongyang, North Korea, Alexei Monroe looks at the frequently unhinged Western media reaction to the trip, and asks where it sits with their long-standing ambigious exploration of totalitarianism. Photo by Jorund F Pedersen
Black Sky Thinking
The Great Divide: On Laibach In North Korea
As Laibach return from their controversial visit to Pyongyang, North Korea, Alexei Monroe looks at the frequently unhinged Western media reaction to the trip, and asks where it sits with their long-standing ambigious exploration of totalitarianism. Photo by Jorund F Pedersen
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A Droning In The Eire: Jennifer Walshe On The Irish Avant-Garde
A new project has begun to explore and document the wealth of experimental music in Ireland's past. Ian Maleney speaks to the Aisteach Foundation's Jennifer Walshe about ecclesiastical drone, bog-dwelling noise musicians and a hitherto uncelebrated group of queer composers
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Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory
