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Remembering what it was like to grow up in the shadow of AIDS, Luke Turner argues that Russell T Davies' moving drama It's A Sin provides an overdue opportunity for society to recognise its complicity in the crisis, as well as similar injustices today
A quarter of a century after the death of Derek Jarman in February 1994, Adam Scovell looks back at one of the most radical artists of his day, and wonders where we might find his ilk today. All images courtesy of the BFI.
In a fascinating, in-depth interview, Ossian Brown and Stephen Thrower of Cyclobe guide Russell Cuzner through their shimmering career, discussing the hurdy-gurdy, Derek Jarman, Nurse With Wound, live works and artistic collaborators. Thanks to Cyclobe for archive imagery
With the BFI's Derek Jarman season currently marking the twentieth anniversary of the artist and filmmaker's death, Joseph Burnett speaks to gay rights activist Peter Tatchell about Jarman's work towards LGBT equality and raising awareness of HIV
With the BFI's Derek Jarman season currently underway, musician and artist Alexander Tucker recalls his first trip to Jarman's garden, his time spent immersed in the alien beauty of Dungeness, and the filmmaker's huge influence on his own work
As the BFI launches a major season Derek Jarman's live and work, longtime musical collaborator Simon Fisher Turner talks The Quietus through 'Blue's genesis, creation and release, and his subsequent part in keeping Jarman's memory alive.
Not one to be left out, the Quietus Literary Supplement offers up a (not-quite-so-comprehensive) list of its own - our favourite books of 2013, and possible gems of the year-to-come - compiled by friends, contributors and our very own editors
Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about his long and bizarre career, from child actor, to Jonathan King-signed pop singer, to house-sitting for David Bowie, collaborating with Derek Jarman and his new soundtrack to 1924 film Epic Of Everest
Cyclobe, the ex-Coil duo of Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown, have spent over a decade honing a beguiling blend of electro-acoustics and folk instrumentation. Ahead of their show at this year's Meltdown festival, they speak about current projects, the occult and their friendship with Coil
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