A Quietus Interview:
James Holden
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The One With The Conservative Agenda: Why The Offspring Is Punk's Equivalent Of Friends
When I was about fifteen years old I proudly announced to my schoolmates that the song I would ...
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The Trouble With Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord Of The Rings & Other Tolkien Misadventures
In his exquisite 1985 book Final Cut Steven Bach talks about the creation of Michael Cimino's H...
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The House That Neil & Chris Built: Introspective By Pet Shop Boys Revisited
Here’s a thing I vaguely recall about Pet Shop Boys’ third album, Introspective: somebody descr...
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The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live
”In France, I’m an auteur. In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker...
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25 Years On: Revisiting David Bowie's Buddha Of Suburbia
There used to be a particularly evergreen tradition in the music press during the 80s and 90s: ...
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Band Of Pre-Brothers: Dire Straits' Debut LP 40 Years On
For years, I loved Dire Straits. For years after, I hated them, or professed to, and thought I ...
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Moments Of Pleasure: The Red Shoes By Kate Bush 25 Years On
Kate Bush has never been fond of the way The Red Shoes sounds. In 2011, when explaining why she...
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The Warren Is Empty: Watership Down At 40
The 1978 animated film Watership Down, directed by Martin Rosen, looms larger in the collective...
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Did Orangeism Pave The Way For The Atom Bomb? I Am Kurious Oranj At 30
The guilt of not “getting the Fall” is the same guilt one feels after masturbating twice in one...
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Manic Street Preachers' This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Turns 20
About five years ago, I travelled from Liverpool to Cardiff Castle to see the Manic Stree...
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