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November 17, 2022
Sully x Flowdan
A night out to see Sully and Flowdan at Cobalt in Newcastle for my friend Archie’s birthday.
November 15, 2022
London
A few photos taken in London when I was down for the Capitalist Realism relaunch last month.
November 6, 2022
New Tenderness 004
Two hours spinning records from my collection of seven-inches on Slack’s last Sunday. Some classics, some oddities. Some mine, some my Dad’s. Lots of silly love songs. Thinking about tactility, tenderness, sonic affections, radio transmissions, touching at a distance. Shout out to Rosalia Tsikandelova for the studio snaps.
October 24, 2022
For K-Punk: Ghosts of my Life — Photos and Audio
A huge thank you to everyone who came down to the Lubber Fiend over the other weekend to attend or otherwise take part in our For K-Punk celebrations. Though our all-dayer took place on Saturday, for those of us organising and hosting it turned into an extra-long weekend of conversations and reflections. (For me, this […]
October 14, 2022
Anti-Oedipus, Pro-Antigone: Notes from Unsound 2022
As previously mentioned, I was recently invited to Kraków to run a reading group as part of this year’s Unsound festival. The theme of the festival was “bubbles”, and the sub-theme I chose to respond to was “displacement”, presenting some of my current PhD research on displaced children, as read through philosophical readings of Oedipus and […]
October 5, 2022
Resurfacing, Resisting: Capitalist Realism in 2022
I’ll be speaking alongside Tariq Goddard, Siobhan McKeown and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson at Goldsmiths, University of London, on October 20th to celebrate the reissue of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism. The new edition features a new forward by Mark’s wife, Zoe Fisher, as well as an introduction by Alex Niven and an afterword by Tariq Goddard. The […]
October 4, 2022
New Tenderness 003
Early October edition of my New Tenderness show on Slack’s. Recommend listening in the bath.
October 3, 2022
For K-Punk: Ghosts of My Life — Full Lineup Announcement
The full lineup has now been announced for our For K-Punk all-dayer at Newcastle’s The Lubber Fiend. Read on for a full breakdown of the acts performing and feel free to share any of the posters below, beautifully designed by Joe Munsey. The event has been organised by Sam Booth, Kitty McKay, Megan Johnston and […]
September 29, 2022
Anti-Oedipus, Pro-Antigone: XG at Unsound 2022
The theme for Unsound Kraków 2022 is BUBBLES. On the one hand, the word evokes the idea of celebration – as this year the festival is celebrating its 20th edition, between 9th-16th October. BUBBLES might evoke a glass of champagne, a cluster of colourful balloons floating up into the sky. BUBBLES also refers to the […]
September 12, 2022
For K-Punk: Ghosts of My Life
We’re throwing a big all-dayer at The Lubber Fiend in Newcastle city centre on 15th October 2022, to celebrate the reissue of Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life from Zer0 Books. There’ll be bands playing, DJs into the night, food, a discussion of the book, with all info to be announced in the coming weeks. […]
