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Aidan Moffat

Reviews 5

Dirty Songs In A Digital Age: The Live Return Of Arab Strap

Goodbye Girls, Hello Heaven? To Nicola Roberts By Aidan Moffat

Within These Walls: On L.Pierre’s The Island Come True By A Piss Artist

Aidan Moffat Is Radge At Madge: Madonna’s Scottish Disappointment

“Fuck It: I Surrender”: Aidan Moffat Reviews Katy Perry Live

Articles 22

Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat Returns! A Valentine’s Day Special

As he releases his new album as Nyx Nótt, Aidan Moffat returns as tQ's Uncle Agony for a Valentine's Day special!
Black Sky Thinking

No Jacket Required: Aidan Moffat’s Inspirational Album Art

L.Pierre is just about to release his final record - and crucially it doesn't come with a sleeve. Aidan Moffat takes this opportunity to write about what he does like in album art... **Contains images that are NSFW**
Strange World Of...

There Is No Ending: The Strange World of… Arab Strap

Two decades since the release of their debut single, 'The First Big Weekend' – and 10 years since they called it a day – Arab Strap are back with a handful of reunion shows, and a new compilation. They give Nicola Meighan a guided tour of their favourite singles, furthest-flung rarities and bizarrest 'self-destructive ideas'

Film

The Decline Of My Empire: Aidan Moffat On The Force Awakens

Aidan Moffat senses a presence that he's not felt since... (Contains very slight spoilers)
Baker's Dozen

A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums

With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked
Black Sky Thinking

Blurred Lines & Crossed Wires: Aidan Moffat On Robin Thicke

This week, Aidan Moffat was engulfed in a Twitterstorm after offering an opinion on Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines'. Here, Moffat explains his full position on the song
A Quietus Interview

High Roads & Low Roads: Through Scotland With Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat's wandering tour of Scotland makes it to Glasgow this weekend. He and collaborator of forthcoming film Paul Fegan talk to Nicola Meighan about forthcoming film Where You're Meant To Be, Scottish folk song, and offensive clichés of Scots life
Black Sky Thinking

Tracks Of Our Tears: 50 Songs That Make Quietus Writers & Artists Cry

Following this week's Quietus Essay exploring why music makes people cry, the Quietus writers and several artists select and discuss the songs that make them well up
Albums of the Year

Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Albums And Tracks

John Doran, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Laurie Tuffrey sift through 2013's releases to bring you a guide to their favourite albums and tracks
Books

I Fail To Remember: B.S. Johnson Thirty Years On

Forty years after his death, and as a new collection of his drama and prose is published, Aidan Moffat and Gareth Campesinos! remember B.S. Johnson to Fearghus Roulston and recount his influence on their own work
A Quietus Interview

Strap, Crackle & Pop: L. Pierre’s Aidan Moffat Interviewed

The decaying sample collages of Aidan Moffat's L. Pierre project are beautiful and unsettling in equal measure. He tells Luke Turner that marvelous new album The Island Come True is like a Choose Your Own Adventure story
A Quietus Interview

A Quietus Field Trip With Aidan Moffat, UFO Hunter

Nicola Meighan takes "swashbuckling cult-pop autodidact" Aidan Moffat for a stroll around his childhood home in search of ET, but ends up discussing his past, and sense of place, family and death
Black Sky Thinking

Aidan Moffat Takes A Closer Look At Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’

A few years ago, Aidan Moffat sorted out your sexual problems in his I'm No Expert column. Now he resurrects it to scrutinise the lyrics of pop ancient and modern. First up, a terrifying encounter with Adele...

A Quietus Interview

Aidan Moffat: The Worst Gig I Ever Played (& A Few I’ve Been To)

Next week, the Quietus is helping put on an Aidan Moffat pop concert in London. We're hoping that he's learned some lessons from the escapades that he outlines below
Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat: Anonymous Clinic For Awkward Itches

All ye broken of heart and restless of loin fear not, for Aidan Moffat returns with his latest wisdom-packed column of sex advice

Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat: May Your Endings Always Be Happy

As spring arrives and minds turn to lust, the pigeons in the trees around Quietus HQ struggle to fornicate so heavily are they laden with letters for delivery to our resident sex columnist Aidan Moffat...
A Quietus Interview

The Last Romantic? Aidan Moffat Interviewed

The Quietus settles down with Aidan Moffat for a post-Valentines Day and _How To Get To Heaven From Scotland_ debrief
Black Sky Thinking

A Valentine’s Day Letters Special From Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat might have a new album out this week, but that hasn't prevented him from finding time to pop to the garage for a 99p rose and a lurid pink card, and settling down to fix your Valentine's vexations

Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat Returns To Mend Your Wounded Hearts & Privates

New Year is traditionally a time for relationship strife and itches in the nethers from unfortunate encounters after December's office party season. Thank goodness Aidan Moffat is back to sort you all out
Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat: Prophylactic For Your Conjugal Woes

Aidan Moffat's back from holiday to solve more of your depraved and peculiar carnal habits

Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat: Back To Fix Your Weeping Sores

Aidan Moffat returns with the second installment of his all-new sex and love advice column, I'm No Expert.
Black Sky Thinking

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat’s First Sex Advice Column For The Quietus

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