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Baker's Dozen

Time Portals: Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Favourite Albums

After cheering up the nation with her lockdown kitchen discos, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes Fergal Kinney through her 13 favourite albums, from Blur to Madonna, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and musicals
Anniversary

Time Would Come To An End: Pet Shop Boys’ Behaviour at 30

The end of the imperial phase or Pet Shop Boys’ real masterpiece? Fergal Kinney finds Pet Shop Boys’ most dense work – taking in deep house, the fall of Communism and the spectre of HIV AIDS
Baker's Dozen

Coming Back To Beauty: Kevin Rowland’s Favourite Music

Kevin Rowland guides Fergal Kinney through the songs that saved him, from self-discovery as a musician through the saving grace of music in recovery from drug addiction. Rowland portrait by Eliza Hill.
Black Sky Thinking

Musicians Speak Out About Small Venue Closures

As live music venues are awarded £2.2m in emergency government funding, Fergal Kinney asks if it is enough and speaks to artists about the small venues that they love
A Quietus Interview

All The Worst Things You Ever Thought About Are Happening: Gaika Interviewed

One of the most distinctive voices in British music has teamed up with Latin America’s most exciting party collective; Gaika discusses working with NAAFI, ghetto futurism and Black Lives Matter
Remember Them…

Remembering Kay Carroll Of The Fall

Fergal Kinney speaks to Marc Riley, Una Baines, Martin Bramah, Paul and Steve Hanley, Elena Poulou, Liz Naylor, John Robb and Geoff Travis to get a sense of just how important Kay Carroll was to the development of The Fall
Black Sky Thinking

Quietus Writers On Why BBC4 Is Worth Saving

As rumours abound that BBC4 is to close, tQ writers look at the highlights - and flaws - of the channel, from Jonathan Meades to reindeer migrations, music docs and more
Black Sky Thinking

Culture Wars On The Cobbles: Corrie At 10,000 Episodes

As Coronation Street reaches its landmark 10,000th episode, former soap obsessive Fergal Kinney reflects on what it says about a changing Britain

A Quietus Interview

Fruitful Tension: Working Men’s Club Interviewed

Syd Minsky-Sargeant may only be 18 but he's working hard at making Working Men's Club a success, says Fergal Kinney. As well as the interview we also have the premiere of the band's new 'White Rooms & People' video
A Quietus Interview

The Shadow Of Death Hangs Over It: Bomb Sniffing Dogs Interviewed

A band featuring Mark E Smith's ghost writer, an ex-member of The Fall and Bill Ryder-Jones' guitarist are genuinely great and commendably angry, says Fergal Kinney. But should they really be punching in and down instead of out and up?
A Quietus Interview

Constructs Of Sanity: LABOUR Interviewed

Fergal Kinney talks to the publicity shy duo who appear at the Musica Sanae festival in Berlin this weekend
A Quietus Interview

Old Masks And New Waves: Hyperdub’s Mana Interviewed

Ahead of an appearance at Club To Club festival in Turin, Fergal Kinney speaks to Hyperdub signing Mana about The Italian New Wave
Reviews

Alice Hubble

Polarlichter

One half of “cutie electronica” duo Arthur and Martha, Alice Hubble's solo debut conjures gorgeous pastoral soundscapes, finds Fergal Kinney
Reviews

Haiku Salut

The General

The fourth album by Derbyshire's Haiku Salut offers up a melancholy soundtrack to Buster Keaton's most celebrated but least funny film
Live Reviews

Frozen Warnings: Maxine Peake As Nico And The Roots Of Oblivion

As Maxine Peake plays Nico in a new Manchester production, Fergal Kinney explores the difficult art and politics of ‘the Marble Index’ and finding that album’s sonic oblivion in the mainstream of 2019 pop
Reviews

Hot Chip

A Bath Full of Ecstasy

On their new album, Hot Chip work out what to do once the imperial phase is over, finds Fergal Kinney
Reviews

Sparks

No.1 in Heaven

Sparks classic No.1 In Heaven has just been re-issued. Perfect time to take another look at the Mael Brothers' classic 1979 collaboration with Giorgio Moroder
Film

Shit Life Syndrome: Mike Leigh Beyond The Hits

With Mike Leigh's latest film, Peterloo, in UK cinemas this weekend, Fergal Kinney takes a deep dive through some of the British director's less well-known pictures
Books

Jiving With Cosmic Debris: Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor Reviewed

In Dave Haslam's memoir, Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor, Fergal Kinney finds an eloquent chronicler of the city in Manchester and British club life in general
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