Episodes
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Low Culture Podcast sampler: Betty Blue
It's another sampler for the Quietus Low Culture Podcast, which goes out each month to our Subscriber and Subscriber Plus tier supporters. This month, tQ founders Luke Turner and John Doran cast their eyes over a controversial classic of French cinema. To access the full podcast, further...
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Low Culture Podcast sampler: The Ploughman's Lunch
This is a taster for the main Quietus Low Culture Podcast, released each month exclusively for our subscribers – you can find out about all the other perks they get here. "Taster' is the right word, too. Back in the stressful early days of The Quietus John and Luke would often cheer themselves up...
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Low Culture Podcast sampler: Altar by Sunn O))) & Boris
Here's your latest trailer for The Low Culture Podcast, one of the regular perks enjoyed by subscribers to The Quietus – these wonderful people fund all our work. You can find out more about subscriptions here. Sunn O)))’s original name Mars tells you something, it being both the name of a…
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Low Culture Podcast: A Quietus Trailer
It's been a while since we've regularly updated our Quietus podcast feed, but that's about to change. Many of you will be aware that the site is now pretty much entirely funded by our readers, with these exalted subscribers getting sent a host of perks, including what we call the Low Culture...
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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks VI – Getting Physical in a Digital World, With Pep Gaffe
The last episode of our series made in collaboration with 20ft Radio explores music trends post-Maidan and being “a rhizomatic thing” during wartime. Why do we need labels nowadays, especially in Ukraine? Especially when the manufacturer pulps most of your vinyl debut release before it’s even…
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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks V – How a Single Radio Show Shaped Odesa’s Music Scene
In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv's 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, paying tribute to Twiggy Pop, and ask what is an Independent label, in Ukraine The fifth Memory Leaks episode is a trip to the south of Ukraine in the 2000s and...
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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks IV – How The Underground Embraced Dub and Rejected the Mainstream
This is the story of how a small Ukrainian label evolved away from expectations of Ukrainian music as being all about folk music. The fourth episode of the Memory Leaks sees us stepping back into the Ukraine of the 2000s to take a closer look at the phenomenon of small indie labels and how the...
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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks III – 1990s Ukrainian Underground in Bloom
In the third episode of Memory Leaks, we're moving deeper into the 1990s and the evolution of underground sound from rock to electronic. Our guide this time is Oleksii Dehtiar aka Maket, the frontman of the cult band Ivanov Down, one of the most uncompromising acts of the 1990s Kyiv scene.…
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New Voices Ukraine Memory Leaks II: Nova Moon Rising – The Phenomenon of the Kharkiv Novaya Scena
The second episode of Memory Leaks is dedicated to the Kharkiv-based phenomenon of the Novaya Scena (New Scene). Novaya Scena was an arts community and music production centre that was managed by Serhii Miasoedov. Accompanied by Serhii and Oleksander Klochkov - a music enthusiast, and caretaker…
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New Voices Ukraine Podcast: 20ft Radio’s Guide to the Ukrainian Underground. Memory Leaks, Part I
In the first podcast from Kiev's 20ft Radio we're taken deep into the otherworldly folk sounds of the Ukrainian underground of the late 80s and early 90s. New Voices Ukraine is a collaboration between The Quietus, 20ft Radio, Neformat, the Ukrainian Institute and the British Council. In an...
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Nuts & Bolts S4 E1 – Cathy van Eck
Nuts And Bolts Podcast is back with the first episode of Season #4, where host Jessica Sligter interviews composer, sound artist, and researcher Cathy van Eck (1979 Belgium/Netherlands), whose work combines elements from performance art, electronic music, and visual arts. Cathy teaches at the...
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Nuts and Bolts S3 E4 – Jessica Sligter
The final episode of Season 3 features Nuts & Bolts founder herself, Jessica Sligter. Sligter is a performer, composer and producer based in Berlin, whose practice lies at the meeting point of various experimental expressions, in a 'noir,'conceptual space. Exploring conflict and border-crossing...
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Nuts and Bolts S3 E3 – Nadah el Shazly
Our special guest for this episode is Nadah el Shazly, Cairo-based producer, composer and performer. Her work both radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland from the early 20th century and explores new sonic and harmonic frontiers. She released her critically acclaimed debut album…
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Nuts and Bolts S3 E2 – Jana Winderen
For this new episode, we’re thrilled to meet Jana Winderen, researcher and artist (Goldsmiths, university of London) with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the university of Oslo. Jana focuses her work around audio environments and ecosystems which are hard for humans…
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Nuts and Bolts S3 E1 – Jessica Ekomane
For the first episode of our third season we chatted with electronic musician and sound artist Jessica Ekomane, French-born and Berlin-based. Ekomane, who recently released the LP Multivocal, explores psychoacoustics, rhythmical perception, and the interchange of noise and melody, in immersive,...
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The Best of Times… with Geddy Lee
Welcome to The Best Of Times... podcast brought to you by Lush and The Quietus. The Best Of Times... podcast is presented by John Doran. In this series he talks to people about some of the best and worst times they have been through and hopefully discovers how these experiences have made them who...
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The Best of Times… with Kate Tempest
Welcome to The Best Of Times... podcast brought to you by Lush and The Quietus. The Best Of Times... podcast is presented by John Doran. In this series he talks to people about some of the best and worst times they have been through and hopefully discovers how these experiences have made them who...
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Nuts And Bolts S02 E04 – Maja S. K. Ratkje
Season #2 of gear-talk podcast Nuts And Bolts comes to an end with a fourth episode, where host Jessica Sligter meets Maja S. K. Ratkje, at her home in the Norwegian woods. A prolific performer, improviser and composer, technology is a part of Ratkje’s practice across the board. Chance versus...
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The Best of Times… with Cate Le Bon
Musician Cate grew up in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales and she sings in both Welsh and English. After an early tour with Gruff Rhys Of Super Furry Animals and a collaborative role in his Neon Neon project, she went on to release a series of inimitable records as a solo artist. Staking out a sound...
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The Best Of Times… with Mavis Staples
Welcome to The Best Of Times... podcast brought to you by Lush and The Quietus. The Best Of Times... podcast is presented by John Doran. Over the coming months he will be talking to people about some of the best and worst times they have been through and hopefully find out how these experiences...
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Nuts and Bolts S02 E03 – Jlin The Innovator
Straight from Steel Town, we talk to Jlin The Innovator on the third episode of Nuts And Bolts Season #2. Growth and health in music production: it's not just about the skill, but also about the spiritual, says Jlin. Creating layered, propelling compositions, Jlin shares with us her tips on…
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The Best Of Times… with Róisín Murphy
Róisín grew up in Arklow, Ireland but moved with her family to Manchester, when she was 12. She formed the group Moloko with Mark Brydon in 1995, straddling the pop, art rock, trip hop divide, cementing their place in the popular consciousness with the tracks Sing It Back, The Time Is Now and...
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Nuts and Bolts S2 E2 – Maria W Horn
Swedish composer and electronic musician Maria W Horn is our guest at Nuts And Bolts gear-talk podcast, episode #2. Horn works immersively with electronics; her main weapon of choice, Supercollider, is but one of many software and hardware tools that she interacts and experiments with to create…
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The Best Of Times… with Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave
Kristin is an American rock musician, songwriter and author and is probably best known for fronting the bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. In the past she has talked candidly about the battles she has faced regarding her mental health which have run in parallel to her 35 year career as a...
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The Best Of Times… with Horace Panter and Terry Hall of The Specials
This popular punk-influenced rocksteady and ska band formed in Coventry in 1977 and went on to record one of the most highly rated British debut albums ever, The Specials in 1979. They rapidly became the epitome and gold standard in socially realist, anti-racist, politically progressive bands.…
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Nuts and Bolts S2 E1 – Andrea Parkins
Opening Season 2 of gear-talk podcast Nuts And Bolts, improviser and sound artist Andrea Parkins chats with host Jessica Sligter about synths, pre- and post-sampler life, glitchy Goldberg machines, and more. Andrea Parkins has traded New York for Europe, and is an established part of the…
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The Best Of Times… with Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods
Welcome to The Best Of Times podcast brought you by Lush and The Quietus. The Best Of Times is a new podcast show presented by writer and broadcaster John Doran and over the coming months he will be talking to people about some of the best and worst times they have been through, and in the…
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Neil Tennant Interview and Q&A
Neil Tennant joins Michael Bracewell at EartH in Dalston to discuss his new collection of lyrics, 'One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem', in front of a sold-out audience. In a wide-ranging conversation they discuss the lyrics that made Pet Shop Boys one of the most successful pop groups in British…
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Nuts and Bolts #4 – Susanna
For the last episode of Season 1 of Nuts And Bolts, our podcast dedicated to female* musicans and their gear, Norwegian artist Susanna talks to host Jessica Sligter about recording, doing it yourself, and more. Something of an institution in her homeland of Norway, American songwriter Bonnie…
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Nuts and Bolts #3 – Danishta Rivero
Gear-talk podcast Nuts And Bolts is back with a third episode, where host Jessica Sligter meets with sound artist and improviser Danishta Rivero from Oakland, California. From Venezuelan folk to metal, Rivero's work brings her gear and her voice together in a visceral, noisy expression, in bands...
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The Quietus Hour – Show 57 (03/05/2018)
More excellent new music and passable chat with Luke and John.
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Nuts and Bolts #2 – Guro Skumsnes Moe
Nuts And Bolts' Jessica Sligter meets with bass-player and poet Guro Skumsnes Moe, Octobass player and frontperson of the band MoE.
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Nuts and Bolts #1 – Jenny Hval
Nuts and Bolts is a show produced externally by Jessica Sligter and will expose the gear-secrets of some of your favourite female* artists. The first episode features Jessica talking to Jenny Hval. Produced with funding from the Norwegian Arts Council.
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The Quietus Hour – Show 56 (15/03/2018)
This week the Quietus Hour brings you news that we're going to be launching a whole host of new programmes that you'll be able to listen to on our Mixcloud page, and subscribe to via iTunes. Alongside information on Hyperspecific, Anna's Alphabet and Nuts & Bolts, the Quietus Hour this week...
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Show 55 – Judas Priest
With Luke and John away, The Quietus Hour is taken over by Louise Brown talking to Rob Halford from Judas Priest about their upcoming tour and the announcement of Glenn Tipton semi-retiring from the band.
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Show 53 – Matt Johnson (The The)
Today’s guest on this very special edition of The Quietus Hour is Matt Johnson of The The. John Doran, Mighty Seb White and Al Overdrive set up office for the afternoon round at his London gaff and, over a very nice cup of white tea, we put the world to rights. While listening to tracks from the...
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Show 52 – 05/10/2017
For the first time since the Inaugural Day Of Radio, Luke Turner and John Doran are reunited once more on the radio - together in scleretic dreams, both attending the non-stop neurotic cabaret, in tune with the OCD Soundsystem etc. - bound by the adhesive of passable chat and excellent new music....
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Show 51 – Hannah Peel
Friend of the Quietus Hannah Peel pops into tQHQ for a cup of tea and a chat about Barnsely-based cosmic explorer Mary Casio, the challenges of combining brass with synths and chooses all of today's records inspired by the Cassini Probe's death dive into the atmosphere of Saturn. With music by Jo...
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Show 50 – Day of Radio special
Pinch punch - the first of the month... Last Friday was the start of September, and John and Luke were joined in tQHQ by Barry The Barber and Todd The Dog. Abandoning their usual tack of bringing you the best in new music, they picked a selection of ABCs (anthems, bangers, classics) which remind...
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Show 49 – Angus Andrew
Over the past few weeks The Quietus has been lucky enough to see Liars play live three times, at the Visions Festival, Green Man and last night at Rough Trade East, where Angus Andrew and his new bandmates managed to conjure a special energy that transported us somewhere weird of their own making…
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Show 48 – Paddy goes to Green Man
With John and Luke both preoccupied with their radio show, it once again befell staff writer Paddy Clarke to take up the Quietus Hour mantel for our coverage of this year's Green Man Festival. Our resident festival-goer reports from a wet but glorious weekend in the Brecon Beacons, spent in the...
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Show 47 – James Endeacott
Our guest this week is none other than Mr James Endeacott who claims his CV contains one thing and one thing only - that he is very good at running round being James Endeacott. More impartial observers might say that actually, on top of this no doubt very valuable skill, he was also an original...
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Show 46 – 10/08/2017 – New Weird Britain
John Doran had such a great time at this year’s Supernormal Festival held at Brazier’s Park, Oxfordshire, (reflecting similarly good times at Supersonic, Fat Out and Milhoes de Festa earlier this year) that he felt he had to “quack on about it” on air with partner in crime, Luke Turner as the…
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Show 45 – Gary Numan
Today’s guest on The Quietus Hour episode 45 is none other than, long time favourite of the website, Mr Gary Numan. Currently back in Europe for a UK tour, he took time out to drop into tQHQ to play us some of his favourite records (not to mention some of his own tracks) and discuss his 22nd…
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Show 44 – 20/07/2017
Back once again like renegade plasterers, John and Luke are reunited on the wireless in the white hot cauldron of torpor, ennui and vague anxiety that is The Quietus Hour. The dynamic duo fall even further down a wormhole of implausible chat with subjects including why Mods are no good at…
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Show 43 – Cosey Fanni Tutti
This week we're chuffed to welcome Cosey Fanni Tutti down from rural Norfolk to our exhaust-basted urban HQ for the latest special edition of The Quietus Hour. Luke Turner recently worked with Cosey curating live events around the COUM Transmissions exhibition at Hull City Of Culture, and today…
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Show 42 – Paddy goes to Glastonbury
For some reason Glastonbury Festival have given The Quietus a press pass. John and Luke are too old for it now, so we've sent staff writer Patrick Clarke to go for us. -- Listen to this show with full songs, and all other shows on our radio page: http://radio.thequietus.com
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Show 41 – Daniel O’Sullivan
On a record-breakingly hot day Daniel O'Sullivan popped into tQHQ with what he describes as "musical air-conditioning" - nine terrific pieces of music to fan the breeze of righteousness over body & soul. As our regular readers will well know, Daniel is half of our long-time favourites Grumbling...
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Show 40 – William Doyle
They exist all around the United Kingdom, clinging on to the edges of our towns and cities like limpets. Made up of intricate streets, short culdesacs, pedestrian alleyways, and detached houses dotted around patches of green, they have names like Jersey Farm and Bowthorpe, and millions of us live...
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Show 39 – Tim Burgess
We've got Tim Burgess along for a Quietus Hour Special this week, The Charlatans frontman heading in to a very warm tQHQ to discuss his band's new album Different Days and play some of his current favourite music. Tune in for chat about the new Charlatans record, what Tim thinks of the new Twin...
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