Matt Colquhoun's Blog, page 20

Kuba Ryniewicz’ Parallel Stories From Here

Kuba Ryniewicz‘ new exhibition at Newcastle Contemporary Art, Parallel Stories From Here, opened last night. It’s a really beautiful show and a bit of a photographic printing masterclass. Can’t remember the last time was that blown away by a show. It was also an honour to be photographed by Kuba a few weeks ago for […]

New Tenderness 002

How about this weather lately? A mix made whilst negotiating heatwaves, crises, mellow nights, fraught days, city grit, beach trips, fog, smoke, rain, cold, and the approaching autumn. Tense and tender. Back again on Slack’s Radio for another hour of music. This one is a bit of a weird mix thrown together during the August […]

“New Mask” by NY Graffiti

I received an email recently with the offer of sending me a record, saying one of the tracks on a recent release from Peace Anthem Records was inspired by a podcast appearance I made when talking about Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire. Little did I know that this “inspiration” was nothing less than a sample. Can’t […]

Ghosts of My Life: XG on Horror Vanguard

I returned to the crypt with Jon and Ash recently to talk about Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life and its recent reissuing by Zer0 Books. Always a pleasure to chat to the Horror Vanguardistas.

Beachfires

Photos taken in early August, before I dropped my camera in the sand and broken it. No more photos for a while until I can afford to get it fixed. Lots of these were taken, inevitably, with a Burial earworm.

XG on “Behind the News”

I spoke to Doug Henwood the other day for his KPFA show, “Behind the News”, about the new reissue of Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of my Life. You can listen back here.

Coming Through: Notes on Solitude and Substance, Fashion and Poetry

… Thousands of memories of feeling solitude, and wishing in a rage for the end of hard times or of thought. Maybe he will only leave a formless pile of glimpsed fragments, sufferings broken against the world, whole years lived in the space of a minute, incomplete and cold constructions, tremendous labours summed up in […]

Woodstock ’99: A Mismanaged Structure of Feeling

The new fascination with Woodstock ’99, following the release of a new Netflix documentary series, is so surreal to me. Discussing it with some friends the other day, some of whom are only a few years younger than me, I was amazed they’d never heard about it before watching the mini-series for themselves. Limp Bizkit’s […]

A Conversation between Mother and Son

After graduating from university in 2013, I moved back home. When mam moved home from the hospital, I was newly fixated on my parents’ relationship. My dad worked, as he had done since he was young, for HM Revenue & Customs; my mum was a social worker, but often wrote poetry. I thought about the […]

Capitalism and Control: The Oedipal Rise of Steve Jobs

In Danny Boyle’s 2015 biopic of Steve Jobs, the Apple giant has forty-five seconds before he is due to go on stage, introducing the new Apple Mac to a raving crowd of enthusiasts. With the seconds ticking away, he is still thinking about what to include (or not include) in his speech. “I’m back and […]