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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.
As two of the most radical forms of music that emerged in the 20th Century jazz and metal don't always make the best of bedfellows. Luckily Shining ignored this fact when they started on Blackjazz, says John Doran, speaking to Jørgen Munkeby...
In 2009 one of the psychedelic favourites of The Quietus was Oneida and in 2010 it's been White Hills, so John Doran thought it only right to interview them both together. Unfortunately he got the dose of his medicine spectacularly wrong and turned up to the interview two hours late...