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Where Are We Now? The Night by Saint Etienne

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I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

Live Report: Saint Etienne Play Tiger Bay At The Barbican

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Home Counties

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Words And Music By Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne

So Tough & Sound Of Water reissues

Saint Etienne

London Conversations: The Best Of Saint Etienne

Articles 10

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne

After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue, from their early days with C86 bands and Andrew Weatherall to their final, star-filled album
Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Playlist: Catch up with May 2025

Catch up on the sounds we wrote about last month

Low Culture Essay

Anna Doble on Patrick Keiller’s London and Journeys from Saint Etienne to Real Lies 

Troubled by facts that felt like fiction, Anna Doble feared Patrick Keiller's 1994 film might all be an in-joke. But, as she writes in this month's Low Culture Essay, it created a magic-real place that she would later explore through song.
Books

A Thumbs-Up To The People We Liked: How We Used Saint Etienne To Live

In an exclusive extract from his new book How We Used Saint Etienne To Live, Ramzy Alwakeel looks back to the early tape experiments behind 'So Tough' and Foxbase Alpha
Books

Easy To Sing, Easy To Say: Bob Stanley On Pop’s Birth Pangs

In a revelatory volume on pre-modern pop, the music historian balances education with entertainment, finds Irina Shtreis
Film

Cultural Archaeology: On How We Used To Live & The Big Melt

After watching new St Etienne film on London, How We Used to Live, and Jarvis Cocker & Martin Wallace's ode to the Sheffield steel industry, Phil Harrison asks what these explorations of the past have to say about present
A Quietus Interview

Words On Music: Saint Etienne On The Joys Of Pop

The charming London trio discuss the ingredients to pop’s magic potion with Aug Stone
A Quietus Interview

Bob Stanley On Saint Etienne’s Reissues And His Love Of Pop

Adrian Lobb talks to Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley about new reissues, old forgotten songs, Britpop's lack of community and listening closely to the pop charts

Books

A Caught By The River Extract: Bill Drummond’s The Penkiln Burn

An extract by Bill Drummond from Caught By The River - A Collection Of Words On Water
Things I Have Learned

Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley On The Architecture Of London

As Saint Etienne release best of collection _London Conversations_, The Quietus sits down with Bob Stanley for a conversation about the architecture of the capital, modernism, and why he hates the Trellick Tower

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

Kernow Calling: Mark Jenkin’s Favourite Albums

Cornish bard Mark Jenkin talks Sean McGeady through the soundtracks to his teenage summers, long drives to the hospital, and lonely afternoons hand-processing celluloid, from Junior Wells to Joni Mitchell

Baker's Dozen

Ennio Morricone RIP: 13 Artists And Writers On Their Favourite Morricone Compositions

As news breaks that the prolific and acclaimed composer Ennio Morricone has sadly died at the age of 91, we compile a Baker's Dozen of artists and writers on their favourite work by Il Maestro, from Jane Weaver and Blanck Mass to Årabrot and Rachel Zeffira

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