The year of the Acid Horse is upon us.

Mary is one of our best new writers. Everything she brings to us is gold dust... including this mega essay on Nollywood.

Worth it for the splendid private podcast alone - one of the best ones on the godforsaken polluted air! Subscribe even if you’re really skint like me - just do an Aldi shop now and then, safe in the knowledge you’ve done your bit to save human music journalism.

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lying on my arm until my hand goes numb so it feels like somebody else is picking my nose

I'm pretty sure I remember @jahduran.bsky.social once saying something like "imagine waking up each day and thinking.... I'M IN UNDERWORLD!!!!" Apologies if I'm wrong John, but if not, you were SO right! 🙌x

It was Mad Cyril! I loved doing the latest Low Culture Podcast on Performance - murder, masculinity, magic & more. Talking dank, occluded conduits to Manson, Crowley, the Krays & the quart-monde of Francis Bacon & Lucian Freud. And you can try a sub to tQ for free. Link in bio.

What's that you say, hot James Fox stripped and thrashed? Mick Jagger fruity in slap? In the Low Culture pod, @jahduran.bsky.social & I discuss sexual identity, violence & the failure of the 60s counterculture in Nic Roeg & Donald Cammell's 1970 classic, Performance thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

'At its best, Feeling Is Structure balances grand cinematic overtones with the usual mathematical precision Cooper is known for. However, this scaling up comes at the cost of intimacy.' Max Cooper - Feeling Is Structure buff.ly/eJ92G2b

#NoHereHere #DannyBoylesWonkaExperience #AWarningToTheIncurious

Dr Who (Baker esp.) Magnetic North (Meades) Twin Peaks (all) Fishing With John Survivors (75-77) Penda's Fen Threads The Stone Tape Atlanta The Shock Of The New Fargo Snub TV Chernobyl True Detective I

Richard Gadd is the IDLES of televisual drama. I feel this idea to be self-contained and won't be revisiting it. Or any of his work in the future.

Check it; industrial strength dub and Norwegian noise rock royalty!

Tubeway Army – Are 'Friends' Electric? Donna Summer – I Feel Love The Undisputed Truth – You + Me = Love Motorhead – Ace Of Spades Slayer – Angel Of Death Richard Dawson – Vile Stuff Marlena Shaw – California Soul the Bunnymen – The Cutter Lou Reed – Street Hassle New Order – Perfect Kiss

Me and the boys hitting wetherspoons

I've written about Mogwai's third and not-final album, Rock Action, for @thequietus.com Thanks to @jahduran.bsky.social for a) commissioning, b) editing, and c) providing crucial intel on 'Take Me Somewhere Nice'. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Close to final call now for our gig tomorrow with Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, Colin Webster, Andrew Lisle and Roberto Sassi. Field recordings, electrical noise, free improv. Plus films by Aura Sata. Come one, come all. dice.fm/event/k6dpbp...

Celebrating the arrival of post c/o @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social & @danieldylanwray.bsky.social – leaning hard into the nasty part of the equation.

Happy 45th birthday to this smasher! Words on tQ; link in bio.

Amazing news!

It’s so wild that every single algo (for me) on every social media platform has hard pivoted from t-shirts touting the first six Sabbath albums as a moral imperative to how to disarm a gunman. I mean, what do they know that I don’?

I give @thequietus.com a trip through my life in 13 songs to celebrate my upcoming memoirs! ‘From formative punk singles to Acid House, via encounters with Steve Albini, The Stone Roses, a pre-fame Fontaines &more man of letters and music life in song’ Read it here: thequietus.com/interviews/b...

It's Robert Smith's 67th birthday today. I've spent much of the last night fortnight listening to, and writing about, the Cure for tomorrow's INVENTORY. My thoughts on Faith etc, available only via www.patreon.com/backlisted. @backlisted.bsky.social

As today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Prince, I've updated @thequietus.com #ThePortal archive dive with writing on his utter genius: John Higgs on Prince & William Blake, a guide to Prince's Minneapolis, classic albums revisited, Prince beyond the hits & much more thequietus.com/portal/

Happy half century to all incarnations of Rough Trade… some of the very best to do it!

In 2010 I went to Northampton with gentleman Dave Ma to meet Alan Moore, for a cover feature for Stool Pigeon and a big feature for theQuietus [ln1k in thared]. Dave just sent me these photos which I wanted to share because... well, you would, wouldn't you? Moore was a fantastic host... 1/?

Really great gear here la!

In this month’s Low Culture podcast @jahduran.bsky.social and I head to Avebury for a chat about 1977 “cosmic horror” telly drama Children Of The Stones, discussing D Jarman, J Cope, 70s daytime drinking, the nature of existence & where to find the best carvery: thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

I'm alive but just by dumb luck, i'm connected by sheer chance, will get diconnected soon probably, saw death 2 times in one day, it's hell now in this city, dont know if i will live another day. Don't know what type of person i'll be if i make it.

Fuck yes.

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic 🧺 🐐👾

Bernard Parmegiani and the subjective input of a dog; a triptych.

I'm back in Cornwall for the Wanderfal Festival April 10/11 along with Voka Gentle, Oh Mr James, Melanie Moof and lots of other fine people. thequietus.com/news/wanderf...

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I'm having such a stressful month that only the destructive interference of anxiety noise cancellation will do. hypergal.bandcamp.com/album/our-hy...

I read Jaws when I was eight or nine. I remember very clearly thinking, "What is a moist vagina?" Shout out to the insanely light touch policies of Rainhill Library during the late 70s and early 80s.

In the latest edition of tQ's Low Culture podcast, @jahduran.bsky.social & I discuss Suicide's debut album, Frankie's scream & how even in their fleece-wearing dotage, Alan Vega and Martin Rev refused to play the nostalgia game: thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

This is what I'm doing on Wednesday!

as one of the commenters says "aren't Hen Ogledd, with their creativity and daftness and world-building, exactly what this shitty world needs right now?" + the album was released 2 weeks ago and it's bandcamp Friday ! henogledd.bandcamp.com/album/discom...

was just reading this review of Low-Life and the writer described this version as “one of the sky-scraping high points of 80s pop culture” which nails it. The whole piece on the album is great, helped me view it through a slightly different perspective than I had been thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Newcastle drone rock legends Bong are back as... Bong II. But the Bong (essentially) remains the same. Here's Dawn Terry explaining what's what: thequietus.com/news/bong-ii...

really looking forward to playing 🐎🧬ACID HORSE🐴 💊 the line-up is 👀 super proud to be on it!

Salix is up for pre-order today! I sat down with @thequietus.com for a potted history about how I ended up making up electronic music from a cottage in Suffolk 🌟✨💫

The Ex are playing Acid Horse 26! There is a helpful Infotainment Digi-guide wrought from pixels & grammar by Noel Gardner which will appear, as if by magic in one of the social media answer squircles below containing his top ten essential acts this year (which contains The Ex of course).

Mind-rinsing synthesist Loula Yorke is playing at this year's Acid Horse festival. Here she talks to us about youthful activism and breakcore squat parties, and why it's now time for her to finally start thinking of herself as an artist. Grammar and pixels for those who read the next section.

Cabaret Voltaire are to release a live album, But What Time Is It Really?, featuring 16 tracks recorded during their UK tour last year to mark 50 years since the project’s formation Listen to the live version of ‘Nag Nag Nag’ here: buff.ly/lUsMQ7h

Stranger Things' Vecna is team Pornography! I knew it... Jamie Campbell-Bower's Bakers Dozen...