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ONE HAND CLAPPING
Since Feeling is First: Fran Lock
How to approach this? With caution. With care. With stratagems and stealth. Come at it slant, sneak up on myself, say: it is not that my...
Steve Shepherd: photographs
Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes photographs. He used to make radio programmes, mostly jazz.
Nick Cave: "Ghosteen Speaks"
Our track of the quarter is "Ghosteen Speaks", taken from the new feature film This Much I Know To Be True, directed by Andrew Dominik...
Nick Hynan: photographs
Marc Almond © Nick Hynan Nick Hynan is a British-based photographer. He has been a regular photographer for the SHOUT Festival from 2009...
Rebecca Johnson-Bista: collage
Rebecca Johnson Bista is based in West Cornwall. Previously a writer and journalist, she began experimenting with paper cut-out and mixed...
Since Feeling is First: Jamie O'Halloran
Every quarter, a writer or an artist or a musician tells us about the things that inspire them. Theodore Roethke "My Papa's Waltz" may...
Track of the Quarter
Wet Leg are a British indie band from the Isle of Wight, founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. Their debut album comes out on...
Tony Visconti on record production
Photograph by Nick Hynan A group of musicians and a lead singer pour their hearts out into a handful of microphones. When the song...
Billy Bragg's Winter Playlist
Here is Billy Bragg's winter playlist. Thanks to Billy for allowing us to host them. Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and...
Christmas Track of the Quarter
Singaporean classical guitarist Kevin Loh is one of the leading classical guitarists of his generation, having performed in some of the...
Art by Cassandra Gordon-Harris
Visual artist Cassandra Gordon-Harris was born in New Orleans, raised in South America and educated in Europe, where she graduated from...
Steve Shepherd: photographs
Steve Shepherd writes poems and takes photographs. He used to make radio programmes, mostly jazz.
Since Feeling is First: Steve Shepherd
Periodically over the last forty years I have tried to read about mathematics, physics, relativity and the like. I did quite well at...
Helen Petts and Albert Pellicer: Breath of Sense
"Breath of Sense" is a film collaboration by visual artist Helen Petts and poet Albert Pellicer. Through images of a wild landscape, bird...
Richard Helyar: A Funky Thide of Sings
Our resident photographer shares some of his best (or should that be worst?) album covers. Richard Helyar is a freelance photographer.
Richard Helyar: Summer in Berneuil
Some of these images first appeared in The Travel Imperative. Berneuil is in South West France and Richard Helyar is a freelance...
Track of the Week
King Garbage is a duo made up of writer/producers/multi-instrumentalists Vic Dimotsis and Zach Cooper. Between them, they write, produce,...
Stewart Lee and Andy Hamilton on Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years, freely...
Malgorzata Lazarek: paintings
Polish artist Malgorzata Lazarek is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. The Academy awarded her a lifetime achievement...
Track of the Week
Avishai Cohen is an Israeli double bassist, composer, singer and arranger. This comes from his album Alma, which you can find here.
The Evan Parker Quartet: "All Knavery and Collusion"
Here is "All Knavery and Collusion", the title track from the new LP by the Evan Parker Quartet. This is a lightly edited version of the...
Han Sungpil: The Arctic Circle
Han Sungpil practises art mainly through photography, video and installations, covering subjects such as environmental issues,...
Since Feeling is First: Agnes Marton
Writers are built from obsessions. You start researching herons and, some hours later, you have ordered your heron books and you are deep...
Track of the Week
Where were you (and, indeed, where were we) when this should have been a massive hit?
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