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A Quietus Interview
The Sound of Grown Up Scotland: An Interview With Roddy Frame
Following the 30th anniversary reissue of Aztec Camera’s debut High Land Hard Rain, frontman Roddy Frame releases his latest album on Edwyn Collins’ AED label. He talks to Lucy O’Brien about songwriting, Mark Knopfler’s guitar strings and Scottish independence
A Quietus Interview
“A Funny Kind Of Relationship” Alan Moore On Iain Sinclair
Our second Iain Sinclair feature to mark the 70x70 Finale event at Barbican this weekend sees Nick Talbot interview Alan Moore about his relationship with the writer, perspectives on psychogeography, and influence each has had on the other's work
A Quietus Interview
‘A Living Memory’: Iain Sinclair On Life At 70
Ahead of his 70x70 Finale event at Barbican this weekend, Tim Burrows meets up with Iain Sinclair to discuss filmmaking, the Beats and 1960s counterculture, and the changing faces of London. Sinclair photos courtesy of Stanley Schtinter
Baker's Dozen
Magical Experiences: James Holden’s Favourite Albums
Following last year's feral The Inheritors album, Border Community label head James Holden is about to take his newly developed live show on tour, including to Field Day and Sonar Barcelona. Rory Gibb catches up with him to discuss thirteen favourite and formative albums, improvisation and atheist spirituality
A Quietus Interview
N16age Riot: Thurston Moore On Stoke Newington Life
To mark his appearance at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, we reprint an extract from New Humanist Magazine pamphlet On Community where Thurston Moore writes of his love of and life in the London area of Stoke Newington. Thurston in Abney Park cemetery photograph by Peter Beste, excellent headline by Rory Phillips
Beyond The Hits
Pixies: Quietus Writers Digging For Fire Beyond The Hits
With the Pixies' Sunday headline set at Field Day approaching, Simon Price, John Freeman, John Doran, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Phil Harrison, JR Moores, Cian Traynor, Laurie Tuffrey, Stewart Smith, Jeremy Allen, Luke Turner and Paul Tucker get levitated beyond the hits and list some of the band's greatest album tracks, B-sides and rarities
A Quietus Interview
A Rave Affair: An Interview With Eomac
Both solo and as one half of Lakker, Dublin's Eomac is responsible for some of the most wiry, intricate and freakily banging club music around right now. Playing Corsica Studios this weekend, he tells Theo Darton-Moore about capturing the elusive energy of rave and his stellar new LP Spectre
Baker's Dozen
Parallel Worlds: Peter Strickland’s Favourite Albums
On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites
A Quietus Interview
She’s The One: Annette Peacock Interviewed
Annette Peacock is a stone cold original - an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis. John Doran talks to her about the timely reissue of Revenge - an album she recorded in 1968 that still sounds fresh now. With thanks to Cindy Stern
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: A Tape Review Column For June
Tristan Bath returns to tape reviewing duties with coverage of new cassettes from Tashi Dorji, Weightausend, Faux Fur, AyGeeTe, Solvognen, Siavash Amini and Laplante/Dunn/Smith. Internet friendly image of cat and synth from the Weightausend Tumblr
Books
Midnight Doesn’t Mean Anything: An Interview With Ned Beauman
Karl Smith speaks to the Man Booker long listed author and Granta Best Young Novelist about the difference between crack and classical music, talking with foxes and how his new novel, Glow, is as much a thriller as it is a love letter
Books
I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best: Harry Burke Interviewed
Sam Riviere speaks to poet, curator and editor of recently published poetry anthology 'I Love Roses When They're Past Their Best', Harry Burke, about defying borders and boundaries, technological determinism and whether or not poetry should be free
