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For The Wire Magazine 482 I chatted to @ShovelDance about the radical potential of folk music. Also reviewed Begayer's challenging record Évohé Bègue - a far more convincing bacchanal than Saltburn.

Inside The Wire 482: Shovel Dance Collective Combining the extremely trad with the incredibly weird, the London group fan the flames of folk for a new generation. Read the interview by Lucy Thraves in our new issue: thewire.co.uk/issues/482

Reviewed kristin hersh's book 'The Future of Songwriting' for The Wire Magazine 483, also mesmeric Brìghde Chaimbeul at Hackney Round Chapel + gorgeous records by Anastasia Coope and Clarissa Connelly

Appropriately for today's internet theme of weird outfits and hair, the Wire 484 (out today) includes my review of Strange Attractor's Incredible String Band compendium.

Wrote about what happens when people click their fingers in Twin Peaks for this very Lynchian edition of The Wire Magazine

More than 10,000 of you are watching our #ElectionSesh livestream right now. Don't miss out on the best, independent coverage out there: youtube.com/watch?v=-SzJvZ…

Cherche Encore 'An improvised dialogue between double bass & voice that recalls the sensation of holding two magnets close together at the same poles: something invisible keeps them shiveringly apart' - The Wire Magazine ✍️ - Lucy Thraves thewire.co.uk/issues/486

To mark The Wire's new issue ft essays exploring the sound world of David Lynch and an interview with the director, The Wire will present a special screening of Lynch's 1990 film Wild At Heart w/ a panel discussion and Q&A. 31 July, London Rio Cinema: riocinema.org.uk/movie/wild-at-…

Inside The Wire 486: Theodora Laird & Caius Williams The duo’s investigations of space are propelled by a creative and personal push and pull dynamic. Read the interview by Lucy Thraves inside our current issue: thewire.co.uk/issues/486

Looking forward to talking all things David Lynch and his use of sound after this screening of Wild At Heart, whose soundtrack is a mad dial-spin of genre, era & mood. Come along - I’ll be dressed as the baby from Eraserhead

Tommy Robinson is a convenient (yet nonetheless dangerous patsy) by which the state (in both its Tory/& Labour Party variations) can absolve themselves of any responsibility for stoking a mass anti-migrant sentiment. We have a long struggle ahead of us, but we can, and will win.

Really recommend this illuminating, comprehensive survey of pop music history. Congrats Mixing Pop & Politics

‘Noise, to those who involve themselves in it, has a mystical power and presence, and the problem with intentioned taste is that it dilutes noise. Being a noise artist rests partly on knowing when to leave well alone.’ @MusicClerk at Café OTO: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/sept…

feel like the pandemic massively accelerated all this. no clubbing = time to think about clubbing

BREAKING: The Palestine Solidarity Campaign have projected a video onto Parliament showing the immolation of Shaban Al Dalou. He was burnt to death in a hospital tent while connected to an IV drip. Palestine Solidarity Campaign are calling on the UK government to end ALL arms sales to Israel.

Thank goodness we still have an extremely clever centrist elite dominating the cultural/political establishment & publishing, feeding us regular nuggets of wisdom, telling us which way the wind will blow

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will be continuing to lurk and retweet mostly on Lucy Thraves.bsky.social

**unbearable neek voice** - "actuallllly, one of the albums of the year is a mix" 🤓 youtube.com/watch?v=GZPzly…

This vital & devastating review by Lucy Thraves of Patrick Galbraith's aristo-eco farrago Uncommon Ground starts like this and gets better with every sentence ...