We made a Piran’s Ploughman’s Lunch to represent past, present & future. Homemade soda bread, Irish scalloped potatoes & marrow chutney with Yarg & Cornish Crystal Cheddar plus regulars. @luketurner.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social @thequietus.com

Following Luke and John's latest podcast, we're inviting our readers to make a ploughman's over the weekend. Send us a photo and we'll post the best across all our social media channels What cheese will you use? What bread and what varieties of onion? Radishes? An apple? buff.ly/DjGb3R8

Ok: I admit I was MOVED by @luketurner.bsky.social & @jahduran.bsky.social’s podcast on the Plight of the Ploughman’s and wanted to say, like Bowie, “you’re not alone!” So herewith: a pic n mix Benelux take with the accent on N-Z Holland / Belgium. Details on request

I wasn't sure about doing this one but it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable for us (and hopefully listeners as well). A conversation about bread, cheese and onion spirals off into the history of the plough, populism, gentrification, and the evolutionary aspect of proletarian dishes.

IAN CURTIS at 70 by Stephen Morris + I www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Dear Hearts, If you don't already, please think about dropping a few quid a month on a Quietus subscription during the last day of the 1/3 off sale. And if you can't afford it, maybe give us a 'reskeet' instead! Thx! thequietus.com/subscribers/

Hurry! Just a few more hours of @thequietus.com sale on the subscriptions that fund our support of independent culture – AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, coming soon the the Low Culture Podcast feat. @jahduran.bsky.social & I discussing the ploughman's lunch thequietus.com/subscribers/

'The success of ‘At The Club’, which had topped the UK reggae charts that spring, led directly to The Specials’ ringleader Jerry Dammers hiring John Collins to oversee the ‘Ghost Town’ recording sessions.' ‘Ghost Town’, ‘At The Club’ & Britain’s Summer of Discontent #LongRead buff.ly/yZfso9u

Fully down the press wormhole tryna do it on my own. Any blogs/radio shows/cool writers that may be into our new record? Make yrselves known and I’ll fire it over! #noiselife

'The song lives on, thanks to Dammers’ enduring lyrics, but also Collins’ deceptively avant garde production which renders it almost definitely the greatest record to ever grace the top of the UK chart.' ‘Ghost Town’, ‘At The Club’ & Britain’s Summer of Discontent #LongRead buff.ly/yZfso9u

Our show at ICA is down to the last 50 tickets in Nov.

Coming tomorrow on tQ at 9am a really killer feature!

'Captures the capricious mania of their live show, with noise rock, post-punk, outsider music and krautrock crashing at the ship’s bough' And at No 1 in tQ's Albums Of The Year So Far Chart... MPTL Microplastics - Sod In Heaven @normanrecords.com buff.ly/uaZatLA

'Yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell opens with ‘Hits Like A Dove’, a brutalist relative of The Stooges’ ‘Loose’ where pulsating guitars strafe the ears like lasers' The Heads - Yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell is No 10 in tQ's Albums Of The Year So Far Chart @normanrecords.com buff.ly/uaZatLA

Sound the trumpets! The Quietus Top 100 Albums of the Year so far chart is here! But who is number one? And – dare I ask – how many have you heard? Link in bio.

Thanks to @luketurner.bsky.social @jahduran.bsky.social and @thequietus.com Low Culture podcast I’ve found more music I absolutely love - this is why you should support them! music.apple.com/gb/album/dec...

Look at this stygian beauty by @keithkahnharris.bsky.social … ideally I would have read it this weekend but it will have to wait until the deadlines gathered in their masses have been dealt with.

It's been a year since the Back To The Beginning concert. I found it profoundly moving and wrote this article for @thequietus.com. That led to @andrewfurlow.bsky.social inviting me to write a book about Ozzy. 'Life-changing' is an overused term but applies here. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

come to Blackpool with me.. THE BLACK LIGHTS festival Soundscape tonight 6-8pm BBC6music www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On the 50th anniversary of Ramones’ culture-shifting first UK shows, join us for the first in a series of tQ Extended Play features: ‘Independence Day: How Ramones Changed the World’. Link in bio.

Friends, today I celebrate my 50th rotation here. As is the custom, I am happy to announce my annual 24 hour sale at Room40. Since I have ticked over to a new multiple of 10, so does the discount. You can now get 50% off everything at check out using the code: 50on50 pass it on

All hail Zaron Mizmeras.

In memory of Penelope Keith now is a good time to read the best piece I’ve ever read on The Good Life. It’s by @jonnelledge.bsky.social and available on the @thequietus.com thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

In this month’s Low Culture pod @jahduran.bsky.social & I used Altar as a jumping-off point to discuss the thrill of witnessing Sunn O)))’s evolution, and how they were a huge inspiration for us in the early years of @thequietus.com. Can’t wait to see them on Friday thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

This week I reviewed The Wow! Signal by Muse.

Once again came across Mssrs. Tatlock & Doran's excellent remix of H Bird's Fancies & Goodnight. John Tatlock's email to me about their plans for the track (reprinted at the link) is a wonderful wonderful thing. Read it, there's robot panthers @jahduran.bsky.social substack.com/profile/1383...

The Mancunian Candidate on his love for Guttersnipe, Derek Bailey, AMM, Xasthur, Khanate, Ornette Coleman and Basic Channel.

Viral stunt to announce SunnO)))'s White 3 goes disastrously wrong... @subpop.bsky.social www.upi.com/Odd_News/202...

Happy 50th to La Düsseldorf's debut LP. Words to follow if you want some respite from the general misery I'm seeing elsewhere on this platform.

I don't really get imposter syndrome in most of my creative endeavours, but when it comes to writing I'm always a little nervy when my articles go live. So it's both a relief and somewhat galvanising to get the seal of approval from Mr Paphides

"Shoodlee boop dee woodlee diddlee oh-woah-oh! Zee-wee-oh! Oo-ee-oh! Shoodlee waddlee boop deee woodlee diddlee woah-oh-oh. SWEEN!" IYK,YK right.

Did a Baker’s Dozen for @thequietus.com themed around reinvention of the guitar - half Still In A Dream era heroes and half their hallowed ancestors of noisepop chaos and sonic overload thequietus.com/interviews/b...

My poor dog gets quite passive aggressive when it comes to preventing me listening to MPTL Microplastics…

Hey! It’s my first cover feature for a print magazine in eight years. Squarepusher for @electronicsound.bsky.social in thee shops now…

Ok I HAVE to buy another audio interface. about time! it's been more than 10 years since I bought the last which is kind of useless without it's breakout cable. Help me soften the blow, in turn you get a good amount of exclusive material + deals and codes www.patreon.com/posts/2026-1...

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Reading Proust as a treat to myself for handing in a MS and… i had no idea! (Don’t feel you have to tell me if you’ve known this for ages, I’ll be just fine if you keep it to yourself!)

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.

Bargains at the best music website thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Escape the raging sea of AI clickbait and fakery with our special Spring Subscription Sale, plus enjoy your first 30 days for free: buff.ly/1E8UUsp

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