Noel Gardner
, February 8th, 2021 08:51
Noel Gardner s first New Weird Britain column for 2021 looks at what it means to be an international artist currently trapped in London/ Britain by the pandemic and what this means for their practice
The world of early 2021 remains stiflingly, medievally small, most weeks in fact extending no further than the shops either side of my flat, and the “Britain” in which these places are supposedly situated becomes – again, measurable by the week – increasingly insular and hateful, be that by legislative means or shifts in the aggregate public mood. I take minor solace in writing this column, whose woolly boundaries ensure there are always more things to be bundled under its categorical tarpaulin.
Jennifer Lucy Allan
, January 27th, 2021 09:21
Jennifer Lucy Allan enjoys extended versions of Don Cherry tracks, architectural ambience from Romania, French bagpipes, gnarly dancehall and Welsh dub this January
Alina Kalancea
This month I’ve got a lot of music to catch up on, so there’s as much in my intro as there is in the actual reviews. Since Christmas and New Year is the only time I step off the new release train, I spend a month listening to music without a care for when it came out. I stockpiled for a cancelled Christmas by buying all three volumes of Jamaican doo-wop from Death Is Not The End, and a hand stamped paper bag containing five CD-Rs by Tuluum Shimmering, which was the best £10 I’ve spent in a very long time – their latest is my first entry for this month’s column.
A selection of London pirate radio adverts spanning almost a decade have been compiled into a release.
The first of a two-part series, incoming via Record label and NTS Radio show Death Is Not The End, London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 is an archive of adverts and idents broadcast on the capital s pirate radio stations, including an introduction featuring Frankie Knuckles seminal house hit, Your Love .
The compilation, which is also available on cassette, features over 40 individual audio clips, ranging from 13 seconds to over two minutes, catalogued with names such as Rare Groove Champagne Party , Ladies Sunday Night Affair , Next To Tescos , and Ravers Dateline .