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Charisma & Alienation: James Lavelle’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed
This year, Southbank Centre asked Mo'Wax founder James Lavelle to curate their annual Meltdown festival. As has become Quietus custom, we sent a crack team of reviewers to report back on some of the most intriguing and exciting events. Words by Julian Marszalek, Colm McAuliffe, Chad Parkhill, Jack Losh, Andy Thomas and Paul Tucker
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Pleasurable Delirium: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2014
Last week, the Quietus relocated to Barcelona for Sónar Festival, one of the year's major electronic music summits. Angus Finlayson, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Ben Cardew report back on some of the life lessons they took home with them
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‘No Pass Outs!’ Things The Quietus Learned At Supersonic Festival
Luke Turner, Rory Gibb, Colm McAuliffe and Laurie Tuffrey report back on a weekend of varied sonic treats at this year's two-day Supersonic festival, featuring Swans, Sleaford Mods, Sly & The Family Drone and plenty of other acts not beginning with 'S'
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Europe After The Rain: J.G. Ballard & Only Connect
What is the word that describes the panicky feeling you get when you realise that literally everything - bar pickled herring - is now Ballardian? John Doran goes to Oslo's Only Connect festival to find the connections between J.G. Ballard and avant garde music
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Battle Lines Of Meaning: These New Puritans’ Field Of Reeds Expanded
These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the sublime in the horrors and scars of southeast England ". Photo by Andy Wilshire
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No More Coals From Newcastle: Test Dept At AV Festival
Luke Turner travels to the AV Festival in Newcastle and sees Test Dept make a powerful, moving statement about the end of the coal industry and Miners' Strike with a gigantic installation at Dunston Staithes on the River Tyne. Photographs by Colin Davison, Mark Savage
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A Perfect Confection: Kylie Live At The Old Blue Last, By Simon Price
Last night, Kylie Minogue swept into the intimate confines of the Old Blue Last in London for a short performance to launch her new single Into The Blue (see what they did there?). Simon Price was on hand to ram into your heads once again the fact of Kylie's pop genius
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Baker's Dozen
Things I Hold Dear: Nadine Shah’s Favourite Albums
In this week's Baker's Dozen, Nadine Shah guides Jeremy Allen through favourite albums from Mariah Carey to Fat White Family, along the way discussing her friendship with Amy Winehouse and why Richard Dawson is the only man who should be allowed acoustic guitars at parties
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A History Of Wolf Eyes’ Most Crazed Gigs, By Wolf Eyes
US noise kingpins Wolf Eyes recently released their new album, No Answer: Lower Floors. Ahead of their shows at Incubate, the group's John Olson - under the guise of INZANE JOHNNY - recounts a history of some of their wildest gigs, from accidental mace-related head injuries to Italian construction sites
