A teen at the pubasked me for ‘some chip’ and it turns out that’s what the kids call tobacco now. I feel 100

Harsh noise wall has been invaded by fake fans and cynical viral campaigns​. Here’s how deep it all goes.

Can’t believe I got fat head shamed at the Hen Ogledd gig (a lady behind me complained audibly about My fat head) :(

Big up Hobsbawm

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Loving this Czech jawharp / primitive guitar combo out on Mappa later this summer mappa.bandcamp.com/album/plot

Been getting loads of fake AI spam commissions recently but this is my new favourite

I met Andy Burnham at a Pogues afterparty in Dublin two years ago. He was extremely drunk and only wanted to talk about Everton. This will be my only contribution to the #discourse

Currently planning the next edition of my radical traditional folk column for tQ. Keen to hear of any new/upcoming releases with an impetus on both traditional folk and experimentation thank u

In France I was introduced to Norwegian Steeleye Span and I love it www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adar...

Beautiful decor at the mutant sleepover

Shout out to the Gainsbourgean gent next to me on my flight to Tours who spent the whole hour rolling cigs

In a desperate effort to professionalise I now have a website. It is here: www.patrickclarke.co.uk

Update: bag of meringue

Should I be worried about this message from my Airbnb host

Re-upping this banger because the replacement washing machine they delivered today was also broken 🤘

Started the day with a smoking washing machine so now I'm gonna have this in my head for the forseeable www.youtube.com/watch?v=bffH...

Been very much struggling with the feeling of writing into the void recently, this was fascinating and a bit of a balm in a way

The new edition of my column on radical new traditional folk music is out now on @thequietus.com! Ft. sentient American lap steels, Finnish wax cylinder ghosts, Korean techno-meets-ceremonial and plenty more!

Do you think we could do a psyop with my folk column perhaps and get everyone into half hour lap steel experiments

From lap steels gaining sentience to a rethinking of the folk compilation, via wax cylinder kantele ghosts, the return of a dub-folk favourite and a confluence of ancient ceremonial song and left-field techno... Radical Traditional: #FolkMusic for Spring buff.ly/n0dzs6m

Check out this cool review of blue fifty-seven: Henry Birdsey!

The new edition of my column on radical new traditional folk music is out now on @thequietus.com! Ft. sentient American lap steels, Finnish wax cylinder ghosts, Korean techno-meets-ceremonial and plenty more!

South London heads I am DJing an amazing night of sound art heavy folk and drone at Spanners tomorrow ft. Sopraterra, Devid Ciampalini and David Sappa ra.co/events/2397557

This Guttersnipe interview by @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social is very excellent

just seen a priest having a driving lesson

Today I have derailed my day by obsessing over one interview two years ago where I accidentally implied a band's success was purely down to luck (which I didn't even think) - leading to Vostok levels of frostiness for the next forty minutes. I've just heard their forthcoming album and it's 10/10

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As always, the Jim O'Rourke half hour Fast Car cover is doing the business on an enormous hangover www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWx...

This is a silver groat from the reign of Charles II (possibly James II, the face has worn away) that was repurposed by in the C18th as either a pub “slap” token or a ‘love token’ - the initials either refer to a pub or a romantic interest

The occasional tQ Baker's Dozen mention -> actual collaboration pipeline always warms the soul

Revisiting @gazelletwin.bsky.social's Pastoral today for research and have concluded that it goes harder than any other album ever (I will not expand) gazelletwin.bandcamp.com/album/pastoral

Absolutely fascinating reading - perhaps the very first literary reference to Morris dancing from a 1582 Puritan booklet “Agaynst light, lewde and lascivious dancing” Complaining about “abhominable sinnes” ensuing from men dressed as women, and the “entisement unto naughtiness” of dancing nude

Outstanding

Reading this very old book and it’s hard not to give the author a lisp

Arcade Fire, after the singles from The Suburbs but before the album

Banger

Incredible 1910s kantele wax cylinder recordings here, for all of a 1910s kantele wax cylinder recordings persuasion deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/iivana...

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Mentions of Pony Express in Guildford *and* Underage Festival within the same breath in Jamie Campbell Bower's Baker's Dozen have spun me the fuck out thequietus.com/interviews/b...

I cannot handle another Wuthering Heights hot take. There are too many Wuthering Heights hot takes

Great article about the Black British Folk Collective, founded in our very own basement! @thequietus.com @angelcakepie2.bsky.social thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

'Throughout the project was an idea of 'retracing the journey of the banjo from West Africa to the plantation in the Caribbean, to the American South.' "It feels really significant to re-establish the connection to that instrument and where it comes from." Folk Music for Winter buff.ly/faSJA4o

New folk column has arrived!!! I spoke to the good people of the Black British Folk Collective, and reviewed some amazing new records including an absolutely nuts 20 min Occitan pipe drone freakout, joyous psychedelic reworks of Polish folk dance, a harsh noise/bodhran mashup AND MORE

New folk column has arrived!!! I spoke to the good people of the Black British Folk Collective, and reviewed some amazing new records including an absolutely nuts 20 min Occitan pipe drone freakout, joyous psychedelic reworks of Polish folk dance, a harsh noise/bodhran mashup AND MORE

Lovely morning in the Greenwich mud, found my new favourite pipe with a mysterious figure carved into the side, another with a lovely thistle

New Silvia Tarozzi is absolutely sublime

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Reliably on brand

I'm (obviously) all for people paying so that quality music journalism can continue, but surely P4K's 'readers-pay-to-review-albums' thing just devalues its own writers? I want the music journalism I read to be an authoritative voice to cut through noise, not yet another social media debate vessel