Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers
In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk and Kseniia Yanus examine the radio stations, small events and music schools that are forming the heart of Ukraine’s underground music communities