From pubs to festivals to arenas, out and about with tQ
Almost 20 years after they formed, Every Time I Die are performing a victory lap. From the chaos of the moshpit, Dan Franklin finds their primal aggression is actually a conduit for more complex messages about the problems of masculinity and the power of love.
Wayne McGregor has created a dance work based on his own DNA, with music by JLin. In this interview, shortly after the premiere of Autobiography, McGregor talks to Suze Olbrich about codes, stories, spaces, and the nature of live-ness.
At one of the world’s greatest festivals - Unsound in Krakow - John Doran can’t see the wood for the trees. Luckily Arturas Bumšteinas’ baroque weather machinery, the writing of Mark Fisher, GAS, Zimpel/Ziolek, a guide to the primeval forest of Europe and the unexpected arrival of some eco-protestors are all on hand to help him
Tristan Bath heads to the Danish city of Helsingør, home of Hamlet's dad's castle, to try and stay up for 24 hours and watch music from Rhys Chatham, CTM, Ellen Fullman, Keiji Haino, Bjørn Svin, Carl Emil Carlsen and Lee "Scratch" Perry
As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more