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Baker's Dozen
Unearthly Delights: Eric Chenaux’s Favourite Albums
Ahead of a new trio album and a show at this year's Acid Horse, Eric Chenaux takes Barnaby Smith through the thirteen albums that changed him, from the avant-garde to hip hop, traditional folksong to vintage Brazilian psychedelia and more
Books
Mad Dogs & Englishmen: Faust On Virgin Records
The story of Faust is one of the oddest in modern music, taking in terrorism, nakedness, cement mixers, prison and no small amount of groundbreaking music. Here, in an extract from a new oral history of krautrock, all of the major players remember the band's short, tumultuous and incredibly creative time at Virgin...
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Natasha Carthew on the Elephant Fayre
As festival season approaches, writer, memoirist and founder of the Class Festival of literature Natasha Carthew looks back to the 1980s and reflects on the influence of the anarchic Elephant Fayre on her life and work. Images courtesy of Port Eliot / Michael Barrett
A Quietus Interview
Finding Hope: Charles Hazlewood, Brett Anderson & The Paraorchestra Interviewed
The Paraorchestra is a collaboration between disabled and non-disabled musicians, composer Charles Hazlewood and singers including Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah. Anderson, Hazlewood and Paraorchestra members speak to Jude Rogers about the strange joy in singing songs about death. Photos by Kirsten McTernan
Baker's Dozen
Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen
In a year that sees him finish his 'magical memoir', a new album with The Red Elastic Band and a career-spanning homecoming show in Liverpool, former Shack, Strands and Pale Fountains frontman Michael Head takes Patrick Clarke through the 13 records that shaped him
A Quietus Interview
Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed
At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole. Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?
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