Stuart Huggett

Bow Selector: The Full Story Of Factory Classical

Ahead of Manchester International Festival's Tony Wilson and Factory Records remembrance event on July 10, Stuart Huggett takes a retrospective look at every album released by Factory Records’ classical music imprint, including new interviews with key players in its story

The Great Escape: Five Essential New Acts

Reporting back from this year's Great Escape, Stuart Huggett finds the festival staying true to its roots even after a decade, and — in the spirit of its focus on new music — selects five essential new acts from the 2016 instalment

OMD’s Cold War Album Comes In From The Cold: Dazzle Ships Live

Stuart Huggett witnesses the complete rehabilitation of OMD’s fanbase-destroying fourth album at the Royal Albert Hall. Photographs courtesy of Innes Marlow

Paris Angels

Eclipse

Flamingods

Moon

Close To The Etch: 3.45RPM’s Cottage Industry Lathe Cutting

Stuart Huggett digs into the cottage industry flipside of the vinyl revival with Phil Macy’s lathe cutting operation 3.45RPM. Photos by James Kendall

LIVE REPORT: Sounds From The Other City

Self proclaimed "soft Southern liberal" Stuart Huggett faces up to his fantasies of the North West at the Salford festival

The Orchids

Beatitude #9

LIVE REPORT: Slottsfjell

Stuart Huggett hikes up hills for a taste of metal at Tønsberg's Slottsfjell festival and finds that Norwegians have all the best band names.

A Beautiful World: An Interview With Flamingods

With members currently scattered between Dubai and the UK and ahead of their new album Hyperborea, Flamingods talk to Stuart Huggett about how a lack of a single national identity helps create their music without borders

The Bevis Frond

High In A Flat

Acquaintance

Satellite Stream

The Avalanche Of Rose: An Interview With Keel Her

Mixing surf pop, punk and electronics, the songs on Keel Her's debut album are just a sample of Rose Keeler-Schäffeler's prolific home-recorded output. With bandmate Andrew Barnes, she talks to Stuart Huggett about getting out of the bedroom

Simon Fisher Turner On Derek Jarman’s Blue

As the BFI launches a major season Derek Jarman's live and work, longtime musical collaborator Simon Fisher Turner talks The Quietus through 'Blue's genesis, creation and release, and his subsequent part in keeping Jarman's memory alive.

Tales Of The Uncanny: Sarah Angliss Interviewed

Ahead of her BFI Gothic show, composer, inventor and sound historian Sarah Angliss talks to Stuart Huggett about uncanny presences in music, mechanics and song

Laura J Martin

Dazzle Days

Remember It Well: An Interview With Ted Chippington

Ted Chippington’s provocatively dry performances on the 80s gig circuit influenced a generation of stand ups but, as he tells Stuart Huggett, he never said he was a comedian

Belle & Sebastian

The Third Eye Centre

Various Artists

Down To The Silver Sea

Darren Hayman

Bugbears

INTERVIEW: Pere Ubu

****Contains spoilers****

When Pere Ubu's David Thomas talked to Stuart Huggett for our recent Quietus Interview, he told him about the live soundtrack to the film Carnival Of Souls that they'll be performing at Saturday's East End Live festival in London. Not published in the original feature, ahead of this weekend, read how Thomas first encountered Carnival Of Souls and why it's an ideal film for Pere Ubu to soundtrack

From Mercury Rev To Variety Lights: David Baker Interviewed

Eighteen years since his last album, Mercury Rev founder David Baker has returned with his new band Variety Lights. Stuart Huggett hears him lay some myths to rest

String Theory: A Little Orchestra Interviewed

London's A Little Orchestra combine classical composition with an indie-pop guestlist. Ahead of the release of their debut album, Stuart Huggett speaks to founder Bobby Barry and violinist Natalie Hudson

Chris Petit

Museum Of Loneliness

Jon Brooks

Shapwick

Target Practice: David Thomas Of Pere Ubu Interviewed



Thirty-five years on from The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu’s David Thomas talks to Stuart Huggett about new album Lady from Shanghai and how Ubu have always been a pop band

Scott & Charlene’s Wedding

Para Vista Social Club

Sweeping From The Factory Floor: The Label’s Final Years

Twenty years after the Factory Records empire collapsed, Stuart Huggett sifts through the wreckage of the label's final releases

Playlounge

Thrash Magic

Darren Hayman

Lido

The Chefs

Records & Tea

The Water’s Lovely: Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains Interviewed

Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains released their first album for Domino, E Volo Love, last month in the UK. Stuart Huggett met up with the Anglo-French pop band to talk singing and swimming.