HyperNormalisation: Is Adam Curtis, Like Trump, Just A Master ...
WEBOct 6, 2016 · Phil Harrison Published 8:15am 6 October 2016. One of the key scenes in Adam Curtis’s monumental new documentary HyperNormalisation shows a woman engaging with ELIZA. ELIZA was a psychotherapy computer programme developed in 1966 that comforted the troubled minds of its users by simply re-phrasing their questions as self-reinforcing answers.
30 Years On: Remembering The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and …
WEBFeb 10, 2010 · Iain Moffat looks at The Sundays' 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic', originally released in 1990. The first great album of this decade is something that looks likely to be up for debate for some time yet, but there was a time when things were rather more clear-cut; specifically, thirty years ago. Of course, to really appreciate the impact of ...
Q Magazine To Close After 34 Years - The Quietus
WEBJul 20, 2020 · Christian Eede Published 2:42pm 20 July 2020. Q Magazine is closing after 34 years. The news was confirmed today (July 20) via Twitter by editor Ted Kessler, who shared a picture of the cover of the final issue, as well as his editor’s letter which will be featured inside the issue. "I have some bad news about Q Magazine," Kessler wrote on ...
The Endless Now: An Interview With Lisa O'Neill | The Quietus
WEBFeb 20, 2023 · The Irish singer-songwriter tells Jonathan Wright how embracing a lack of control, the influence of poet Patrick Kavanagh and the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic influenced her new album All Of This Is Chance. Birds are a recurring motif in the songs of Lisa O’Neill, so it’s fitting that, within five minutes of our interview beginning ...
Ways Of Seeing: Koyaanisqatsi At 40 - The Quietus
WEBAug 22, 2022 · Although groundbreaking at the time already, Koyaanisqatsi has only earned greater value 40 years later in our modern climate crisis, finds Josef Steen. For some, it was the first example of environmentalist cinema. Others would no doubt think it “a piece of shit”, as its director would have it. It was perhaps only thanks to an enthusiastic ...
Vox Pop: Mark Burgess Of The Chameleons Interviewed
WEBApr 23, 2014 · Julian Marszalek talks to Mark Burgess of Chameleons Vox (formerly The Chameleons) about playing by his own rules. Julian Marszalek Published 7:04am 23 April 2014. Given the enduring media images of social and political unrest, the so-called managed decline of so many of Britain’s inner cities …
No Beats, No Bloomsburys: Jonathan Meades Talks Blair, Brutalism ...
WEBApr 17, 2021 · In March 2021, neither of us were able to leave our flats, and this interview – about his new book Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a follow-up to his 1988 anthology Peter Knows What Dick Likes, covering over thirty years of writing – was conducted over email.. Although you allude to inconsistency being a virtue in the introduction, when faced with thirty-three years worth of your work in one ...
Quit Your Jingle-Jangle: The Smiths’ Strangeways Here ... - The …
WEBAug 15, 2017 · The first night that The Smiths descended upon The Wool Hall, the quiet recording studio near Bath where they’d record Strangeways, Here We Come, Johnny Marr got drunk.Sitting down at the keyboard, he turned to producer Stephen Street and, as recounted by Simon Goddard in his book Mozipedia, felt sufficiently emboldened by booze to unload some frustration.
No Flak Jacket Required: In Defence Of Phil Collins
WEBMay 26, 2010 · The finest moments over four Eno albums to feature Collins’ involvement can be found – bookending an appearance on John Cale’s Helen of Troy LP – via the taut neurotic rhythms and peppered scattershot fills of ‘Sky Saw’ from 1975’s ambient watershed Another Green World, and the dry train track motorik snares throughout ‘No One Receiving’, opener of the sublime Before And ...
Bewitched: Salem Interviewed - The Quietus
WEBOct 4, 2010 · “Conference-Call >n. Mechanickal Impossibility wherin a Fool attempts to be closer to his Fellow by shouting in to a BARREL." Dr Johnson’s Dictionary Of Modern Life Transatlantic conference calls to several domestic landlines at once are almost always nightmarish. I don’t know how anyone sees this as desirable way …
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