Derek Walmsley

The Wire 506.

Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday.

www.thewire.co.uk/shop/subscriptions/

Have the Oscars still not happened yet? Awards season goes on for longer each year. Wrap it up so we can get on with just enjoying stuff without wider subtext.

YouTube video by Dawn Penn | Official Dawn Penn - Night & Day (Official Video)

Not much heard or talked about, but heavyweight in its own way and from its own time, Dawn Penn’s version of "Baby I Love You So", aka "King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown". Great example of riddim science interpolating to the pop charts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_oe...

Very fun read if you click thru

great yarn that!

Important to understand Winston Churchill was literally a racist vis a vis Palestine and Gaza. You can argue he is a good man separately about other stuff, but his racism on this matter is on the record in black and white

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I would trust someone with a Reinforced T-shirt with my life, and yes, perhaps even my coffee @sashamuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

The Wire 462 On the cover: Saul Williams : The US poet, vocalist and actor has long set the power of language against colonialism. Now he pours this audiovisual experience into cinema with the Afrofuturist epic ...

It was in this issue www.thewire.co.uk/issues/462

Great work again. Thanks Robert!

I remember Chris Bohn being a constant advocate for Eliane’s work when I joined The Wire. Not many people seemed to talk about it, but he would thrust a triple CD into your hands and insist you listened, or at least that you knew. Good work.

“A tree, a flower, the countless forms of life in the waters, in the air, in the earth and this evolving species, mankind… this so precious existence, hosting billions of living elements which are microscopic to its own gaze”

She wrote a short text for The Wire for the Inner Sleeve, to accompany Adrien Mauduit’s photo of the cosmos taken in Chile.

So sad to hear about Eliane Radigue’s death, but what a life.

Couldn't sleep last night, so I tried to drift off by listing all the places that sold records in Birmingham City Centre in 1985. I think I counted 17 in total. I was so excited by the thought of visiting all of them that I was more alert than ever. I think I'll try and count newsreaders tonight.

microphones at Grateful Dead show

concertgoers hold boomboxes at Polish music festival

tapers sidestage at bluegrass festival

man in t shirt that reads Tape Master

snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!

that is insane!

A noise group? A psychedelic rock unit? All the above imo. No one quite like em.

One of the great bands.

Never say never?

"Ironing service. No, ironing service. Ironing service."

tbf there wasn't much call for ironing in the combat trousers era

Sounds like essential viewing!

Feel compelled to share the LTJ Bukem documentary from 1996 with the infamous hotel ironing service scene that veers into a scene from a drum n bass This Is Spinal Tap mockumentary.

youtu.be/KrWvB6aiwFg

Notable for a slice of 'junglist' lyrics in there

YouTube video by xCxTxSx Burro Banton, Yami Bolo & Cutty Ranks - 1986 (Complete)

1980s dancehall session with some young voices blowing up in the subsequent decade (and that's about all I know about right now)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt6g...

London’s Early Drum & Bass Scene: A Photographer’s Story London’s early Drum & Bass and Jungle scene in the 1990's — the D&B music producers & Dj's by photographer Colin Hawkins

Some absolutely sensational drum and bass photos

colinhawkins.co.uk/londons-earl...

What a sad loss. IFC such an unclassifiable thing.

Wonder if they asked to use Einstein’s likeness, which I suspect is protected in some way

YouTube video by Willie Colón - Topic El Día De Mi Suerte

RIP Willie Colón, maker of badass tunes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZR...

Astonishing release

Congrats!