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Spam Risk / Scam Risk - Dear Simon Reynolds, My name is ___________________ and I work with the programming team at BBC Radio 4, a nationally recognized Hot Adult Contemporar...15 hours ago
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Pure Inspiration - Well, I may not have provoked a musician to pen a retaliation tune (unlike my own flesh and blood, who recently joined a select pantheon of irritant crit...1 day ago
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Presentemanía - In November last year, Kieran and I joined Argentine critics *Pablo Schanton* and *Antonia Kon* to discuss music writing and music's future as part o...2 days ago
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Absolutely *fascinating* current affairs programme from 1972 looking at advice columnists - Dr Stephen Black talks to Marjorie Proops of the *Daily Mir...3 days ago
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Letter to a Young Music Critic - The easy answer: if you want your writing to be more passionate, write about things you feel passionate about Otherwise it can feel a bit forced If you ...5 days ago
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Still In A Dream: UK events, media appearances + articles, Fifty Lost Treasures zine, translations, Rough Trade offer, and more - LATEST: Me talking Dream @ Word In Your Ear podcast w/ Mark Ellen + Dave HepworthLATEST: Me talking Dream at Paul McDermott's To Here Knows When podcast.^^...1 week ago
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Fuck Art, Let's Dance / Fuck Dance, Let's Art - *(a talk I gave at Harvard in 2012 at a conference on Art + Rock) * “When 'art' walks through the door, it's got 15 suitcases full of very smelly washi...1 week ago
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secret thesis (slight unsightly return) - Is that bended knee meant to suggest an enormous deformed erection? Not a good look - in both the clothing/coiff...1 week ago
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faves of the 2010s - (Tracks not full lengths) Ke$ha – “We R Who We R” Ke$ha - “Backstabber” Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round" Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...3 weeks ago
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Visual Music - a lecture, by me - *Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018* *Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series* There is a subset of experimental ani...4 weeks ago
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angel delights - https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs *Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica! Another vintage release, with a vi...3 years ago
Not sure what's more interesting - that Morley was writing like himself basically from jump, or that he was a Van der Graaf fan (albeit one who's trying to stealthily extricate himself in the light of Year Zero)
ReplyDeleteHammill was the thinking music fan's choice for a lot of people pre-punk - most famously John Lydon. Also I think he was from Manchester (?) so there's a bit of rooting for the local boy maybe.
ReplyDeleteYes, he's fully formed, isn't he, aged what something like 20 or 21.
I like the bit where he has the Coca Cola girl speechifying his own aesthetic viewpoints. The Art versus Entertainment polarity fits my Triangle of Folk / Art / Showbiz.