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It’s holiday season, which means airport delays because someone forgot to put a number in a software update, escaping endless traffic jams to watch seagulls and pigeons pick over litter at the Watford Gap Services, wishing for the days of seaside specials on our hopeless rail network or, if you’re lucky, the joy of a few hours watching the waves on a ferry. With Luke and John in handover mode between their holidays today, we’ve updated The Portal with some of our favourite articles about travelling, and the things we use to do it.
When we started The Quietus we made the fairly arbitrary decision that modern popular music started with Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' in 1974. John Doran talks to Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Karl Bartos about the build up to this flash point in musical history
Thrill Jockey stalwarts and vocoder aficionados Trans Am dispel some myths (and reinforce some others) about the world cities they've called home. They talk binge drinking, border guards and blunt stones with The Quietus' Dave Moats.
Our Quietus At Leisure series brings you Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble's guide to hillwalking - complete with solitude, serenity and flesh-eating midges. PLUS - see the video for his new single 'Roll Along', which is out now
Intrepid man of pedal and metal Jamie Thomson tells the tale of his mission to cycle to the Roadburn Festival: featuring ferries, dykes, windmills, heaviosity, rude signage, useless national cycle trails, and 345 cheese & ham toasties
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