Jem Finer

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Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer

Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues

Black Sky Thinking

Do You Have Plans For 4 Sept 2640? On Music Of Extreme Duration

Benjamin D. Duvall looks at what the longest musical performances in history teach us about the current climate crisis

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Longplayer Day Festival Set For This Month

The festival, focusing on themes of time and longevity, will feature a number of tQ-favourite artists, musicians and speakers

PREVIEW: Longplayer Day

We preview Longplayer Day, this week's London-based solstice arts festival, with Adam Scovell writing a piece on his Robert Macfarlane collaboration, Holloway

THIS WEEKEND: PLACE Festival

Aldeburgh Music's annual festival of landscape taking place this weekend, featuring Iain Sinclair, Jay Griffiths, Philip Hoare, Paul Morley and others

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Film

Unearthing The Lovely Bones: Peter Jackson’s Most Mature Work To Date?

Peter Jackon's latest film _The Lovely Bones_ may seem a far cry from the blood-soaked days of _Braindead_ and _Bad Taste_ but, as Josh Saco argues, there's more to the Kiwi director than lo-fi horror and Hollywood pandering

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Noel Gallagher Announces Two Solo Albums

Collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous is "as far out as I've been"

Film

Royal Rumble: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite

Yorgos Lanthimos plays fast and loose with the historical record in his third English language film, The Favourite, starring Olivia Colman and Emma Stone

Film

Trouble At Sea: Maritime Superstition In The Lighthouse, Sea Fever And Harpoon

Robert Eggers turns to murky waters with his sophomore feature The Lighthouse, but he's not the only director concerned with the shifty habits of seafarers, finds Mary Beth McAndrews

Film

Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading: Reviewed

True Coen brothers fans will happily sit through their mediocre films in order to get to the great ones. The Quietus happily sits through the latest

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London Film Festival Preview: Sister

Val Phoenix watches Ursula Meier's snowy second feature, screening at the 56th London Film Festival ahead of its October 26 theatrical release

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London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Report

Val Phoenix attends the 26th LLGFF at BFI Southbank. Still from The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye

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Jem Finer

Articles 2

Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer

Do You Have Plans For 4 Sept 2640? On Music Of Extreme Duration

News 3