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Heavenly Recordings is currently the Quietus' go-to label for smart, cosmic indie pop. Laurie Tuffrey jumps on a coach to Paris with label Pied Piper Jeff Barrett and his charges Toy, Stealing Sheep, Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs and Temples. Photographs courtesy of Neil Thomson
Quietus editor John Doran recently paid a visit to the Salford Sonic Fusion Festival. He recalls spellbinding, acidic and deeply psychedelic performances from Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti's site-specific Harmonic Coaction and US laptop virtuoso Holly Herndon
In January the former robot went to the band's home town show in a power station in Dusseldorf and sent us this report, a longer version of a piece originally published in Germany earlier this year. Translation assistance by Melody Kometen
Last week tQ's Rory Gibb flew to Turin, Italy, for the twelfth edition of the city's annual Club To Club festival, and encountered leather-clad bondage cherubs, high-powered gin cocktails and even higher powered dancefloors. He recounts some of the things he learned...
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht was supposedly too grandiose to stage, and has been used as a 'pretentious' stick to beat him for years. Leo Chadburn witnesses that refuted in a very human performance in Birmingham. Pictures by Katja Ogrin