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June 18, 2023
Colour Theory (Part Three)
← Part Two Two months of sugary breakbeat highs give way to a persistent sadness. It is weathered, but only just. I’m working most weekends behind the bar at the Cumberland, in amongst all the fun had. I love it there, but the body cannot take how much I want to do around it. I […]
Colour Theory (Part Two)
← Part One I’m sat in our chalet on the first night of Bang Face. Earlier, we dished out the 2C-B. Two friends take a half each, they say, and when the high doesn’t come, we take the rest. I make the comic error of assuming my friends had taken a full half, like I […]
June 17, 2023
Colour Theory (Part One)
“Remember when you used to write about every night out we had,” Kitty reminisced. I said I did, although I felt surprised at how alien the impulse felt in that moment. That impulse had been the cornerstone of what became my first book, Egress. (There’s even a picture of Kitty on page 193.) Back in […]
The Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty Committee on Slack’s Radio
Before our big night at the Lubber Fiend, the Itty Bitty No Titty Kitty Committee took over Slack’s radio for three and a half hours. In all honesty, we were jittery and tired and had no plan, so technical issues and fuckups abound. But whatever. My favourite part of this was probably talking to Dr […]
June 13, 2023
“I’m Sorry It’s Not Blue”: RIP Cormac McCarthy
His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them. — Cormac McCarthy, Suttree The news was hardly unexpected, but it saddened all the same. Cormac McCarthy has passed away at the […]
June 9, 2023
Illness #01: Recording Now Online
You can now listen back to the reading from the Illness event at the Horse Hospital the other week. I read a chapter from my new book Narcissus in Bloom on the influence of the Stoics on Hervé Guibert’s relationship to photography and the self in the midst of his AIDS diagnosis. Audio from illness […]
June 8, 2023
The Wiki Show w/ Rebekkeh
Alongside my own hour of Slack’s last weekend, I was also very excited to be a guest on The Wiki Show with Rebekkeh. We’ve been ships in the night for a while, passing each other in the Slack’s corridor, and finally got the chance to hang out recently and then do an hour of radio […]
June 7, 2023
New Tenderness 012
A chilled-out warm-up mix for the easy comedown, made after getting my decks out of storage. Expect spacious footwork, the occasional loom call, hi tech jazz and jungle in a minor key. I was back on Slack’s radio last weekend with a new episode of New Tenderness. This was a one-hour mix I threw together […]
June 6, 2023
Digital Demonology: XG in the Walker Art Reader
In early 2023, I asked ChatGPT who I was. This is somewhat embarrassing to admit, as an act only one step removed from Googling oneself, but the response provided by this artificial intelligence was both surprising and inspiring. It hardly confirmed my sense of self, but rather called it into question. I was very excited […]
June 5, 2023
Cringe and Commitment after the End of History: XG at the Lubber Fiend
On Wednesday 21st June, I’ll be doing a reading from my new book, Narcissus in Bloom, to help celebrate the launch of Craig Pollard‘s new zine, Cringe & Commitment after the End of History. Come down to the Lubber Fiend for all the fun. More details on their website: Join us for the launch of […]
