Joe Kennedy
Black Sky Thinking
Vive La France! Lessons The UK Can Learn From Hollande’s Election Victory
Hollande's victory for the French Socialist Party in the weekend's Presidential Elections provoked outpourings of emotion and solidarity of the sort rarely seen in the UK, says Joe Kennedy. Photograph thanks to Valerio Berdini
Black Sky Thinking
Vive La France! Lessons The UK Can Learn From Hollande’s Election Victory
Hollande's victory for the French Socialist Party in the weekend's Presidential Elections provoked outpourings of emotion and solidarity of the sort rarely seen in the UK, says Joe Kennedy. Photograph thanks to Valerio Berdini
Books
Unmasking Dishonest ‘Big Society’ Logic: Alex Niven & Mark Olden Reviewed
Two new volumes published through Zer0 Books, Alex Niven's Folk Opposition and Mark Olden's Murder In Notting Hill, both push for greater understanding of politics at ground level, and provide examples of what can occur if this does not happen, writes Joe Kennedy
Books
Unmasking Dishonest ‘Big Society’ Logic: Alex Niven & Mark Olden Reviewed
Two new volumes published through Zer0 Books, Alex Niven's Folk Opposition and Mark Olden's Murder In Notting Hill, both push for greater understanding of politics at ground level, and provide examples of what can occur if this does not happen, writes Joe Kennedy
Anniversary
30 Years On: The Curiously Ignored Lyricism In Slint’s Spiderland
Three decades after the release of Spiderland, Joe Kennedy argues that those who waffle endlessly about post rock have made a mistake in ignoring "a lyrical blueprint which places Gothic imagery at the service of modernist ambiguity"
Anniversary
30 Years On: The Curiously Ignored Lyricism In Slint’s Spiderland
Three decades after the release of Spiderland, Joe Kennedy argues that those who waffle endlessly about post rock have made a mistake in ignoring "a lyrical blueprint which places Gothic imagery at the service of modernist ambiguity"
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Desmond Simmons Remembered By Colin Newman Of Wire
Every time the Quietus has interviewed Wire's Colin Newman he's talked with fondness about his friend Desmond Simmons, a teenage musical ally and inspiration. Sadly, Simmons passed away last month, and here Newman pays tribute to his late friend. Pictures courtesy Colin Newman, main shot was "Taken in a photo booth in London just after having bought Metallic KO by Iggy & The Stooges - must be 1976"
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Heldon’s Electronique Guerilla review
Back in 1974, Richard Pinhas’ Heldon took musical inspiration from Eno and Fripp in order to become France’s Buzzcocks and Throbbing Gristle all rolled into one. The country’s first modern DIY group laid the foundations for electronic music outside of the snobbery of academia and the restrictive practices of the French music industry, says Jeremy Allen
