Life after a certain point is searching for your stupid earbuds until you die

I’m in the latest issue of @statmagazine.org talking to Leyland’s Rainy Miller about the Northern Gothic, his new album, and finding divine in the mundane. Grab a copy via their website.

Sweat tour primavera is about to go fucking crazy

The Ruins A retrospective on five years in the North

Wrote a short, by no means complete, essay about the changing character of the North West in the five years I’ve spent here, and finding reasons to live and create.

Any of you hear of a little album called Blonde (2016)?

Been sat inside working and my girlfriend is sending me photos of her hanging out by a stream

That’s the Justin Broadrick slowcore project, not the Lord and Savior

Listening to Jesu

Anyway this is good and correct

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Everytime someone mentions Mark Fisher in a piece of writing these days there’s an individual who pops up to write 25,000 words on how they are the only person who understands mark fisher. Sad imo!

I have a piece about getting through grief by reading, collective history and Terence Davies in this wonderful little mag. Grab a copy while you can

STAT - ISSUE 14 - STAT One of only two hundred and each complete with a unique rubbing of Preston's Wallace & Gromit statue, STAT is BACK. Besides Preston, we're bringing you pool tables, prison visits, and peeking into…

ISSUE 14

One of 200 and each complete with a unique rubbing of Preston’s Wallace & Gromit statue, STAT is BACK.

Besides Preston, we’re bringing you pool tables, prison visits, and peeking into Martin Scorsese’s dressing room. Grab one while you can.

Maybe once they’ve cleared out the pesky locals and ‘hipsters’ they might enjoy it, sure

That’s putting an immense amount of faith in franchises with no evidence that they will do so. How is a block of flats opposite one of the busiest stations in the UK with a kebab shop on one side and a busy pub on the other any better for anyone other than investors?

‘There are plenty of other cinemas in Birmingham that could be better utilised’ No, there aren’t. Most are franchises, Electric and Mockingbird are two of the only independent cinemas in the city that cater to a niche audience. You do not need a cafe in a cinema, what are you on about?

Its peers are all closed, that’s why it’s significant! It’s extremely well known locally and there’s a lot of grassroots support for its preservation, which is a far greater indicator of its ‘significance’ than ‘profitability’ lol

‘It has no historical significance apart from being the oldest working cinema in the UK’ YIMBYs not beating the oatmeal for brains accusations ever

A real shame, the world is crying out for more newsletters about London

The French, famously shy about tackling the subject of age gaps

Grim Up North On the Landscapes of Theodore Major

For the latest Porch Collapse, I wrote about the landscapes of Wigan’s most reclusive and singular artist, Theodore Major

RIP Death Grips, the most important band of the 2010s

The thing about Deleuze is that I tend to hurt myself trying wrap my brain around him and then he says something that just makes you gasp with how common sense it is like ‘of course the French are too historically rooted’

Every university is going to be a massive business school in 20 years, every arts space a block of shitty flat. Hate this miserable fucking stain of a country

We live in a world that hates art and idolises death

They’re dating

Will Starmer put him on notice to get a grip?

Grim Up North On the Landscapes of Theodore Major

For the latest Porch Collapse, I wrote about the landscapes of Wigan’s most reclusive and singular artist, Theodore Major

The two Valentine’s Day screenings in my city are Before Sunrise and Gaspar Noe’s Love in 3D

David Foster Wallace and Gromit

Shoah Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

SHOAH (1985) - Claude Lanzmann's remarkable 9.5 hour documentary about the Holocaust - is now on the BBC iPlayer. It's the first time it's been on the BBC for a decade.
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