David Stubbs

Enter At Your Own Risk: Two Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary

Two exhibitions at Margate’s Turner Contemporary bring performance to the forefront, Jessica Jordan-Wrench investigates

TQ’s John Doran To Host Metal Modernism Event In Brighton

TQ's John Doran hits the south coast this weekend to expand on the links between Venom's 'In League With Satan' and Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' and between Napalm Death's 'You Suffer' and Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot' that you were previously too afraid (or too sensible) to consider

Oil City Confidential, Dr Feelgood, Wilko Johnson And A Spot Of Word Association

Zoe Street Howe describes an unexpected conversion and then talks to Wilko Johnson of Dr Feelgood about the Oil City Confidential documentary

See PJ Harvey Perform Poetry & New Music

Performing as part of this year's London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, PJ Harvey will read poetry from a new book with Let England Shake collaborator Seamus Murphy, and — no big deal – sing a few new songs, too

Filmmaking As Therapy: The Singular Vision Of Jane Arden

Anthony Nield explores the work of late British cinema maverick Jane Arden, whose three features with partner Jack Bond are reissued on DVD and Blu-ray this month. Still from The Other Side Of The Underneath

Loving The Rope: Lars Von Trier’s Advance Party Project

Do obstructions help or hinder film-making? Arch provocateur Lars von Trier certainly thinks the former, but does his Dogme theory work within the UK film industry?

The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred

On the day that would mark the inimitable writer's centennial birthday, Darran Anderson considers the lifetime's work of a true genius and a true bullshit artist, and how - on issues as pressingly contemporary-seeming as censorship, surveillance and the War on Drugs - his work is as relevant now as it's ever been

Reel Sounds: Anne Clark, Mary Lane, Welsh Pop & More At Doc ‘N Roll Fest

Neil Fox checks out some of the best new music documentaries at this year's Doc 'n' Roll Fest, with films focused on Anne Clark, Mary Lane, and Welsh pop.

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Anti Nostalgia: Zoe Howe’s ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’ Reviewed

With help from Zoe Howe's newly published history of the band - bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes - Hayley Scott unfurls the mystique of the Mary Chain from inception to present day

Is This Music? Norman Blake’s Favourite Albums

From the overlooked influence of Throbbing Gristle to an enduring love of The Velvet Underground, via Broadcast, The Rolling Stones and more, Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake picks the thirteen records that shaped him

Reframing Our Environment: Pulp’s We Love Life At 20

Darran Anderson looks at Pulp's farewell LP, as fine as any of their others, and asks, why did it fall by the wayside?

Jodorowsky’s Dune And The Greatest Films Never Made

A new exhibition celebrates Alejandro Jodorowsky's ill-fated _Dune_ project, due to star Salvador Dali, Pink Floyd and the future kings of science fiction. Lee Arizuno tells the full, psychomagical story

Too Much Too Soon: Menswear’s Nuisance Revisited

Our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett, looks back 25 years to the release of Nuisance with the help of some of the major players

Only Heaven: Franz Treichler Of The Young Gods’ Favourite Albums

The Swiss industrial trio's frontman gives John Mullen a whistle-stop tour of his favourite 13 records

Beyond The Seven Samurai: Ozu And Imamura On DVD

In this first instalment of a regular DVD column, Anthony Nield examines the Western reception of Japanese film, as the BFI and Masters of Cinema start to delve deeper into the works of Yasujiro Ozu and Shohei Imamura