Alan Pedder

Sean Shibe: 'Maybe there is a bit of clownery to what I'm doing, but I'm totally serious about it' | Southbank Centre An in-depth interview with guitarist Sean Shibe who talks dedication, dignity, and weight of expectation as he becomes one of our Resident Artists.

A bit of recent work for the Southbank Centre. Sean’s residency starts there this coming Saturday 🎸

The ambiguous unburdening of Cate Le Bon | Interview In surrendering reluctantly to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal.

Michelangelo Dying is an AOTY contender for me so I’m thrilled to share this interview with Cate, with a brand new shoot by H.Hawkline ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨

The ambiguous unburdening of Cate Le Bon | Interview In surrendering reluctantly to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal.

"You have to learn how to put painful things down in a way that's healing and nourishing": In surrendering to heartache, Welsh artist and producer Cate Le Bon has struck a pearly and holistic balance between rupture and renewal, she tells Best Fit for this week's cover feature.

Haven't been on here in a v long while. This post aged like milk as I had to fly back from Japan after just a week when my dog got sick. Same neurological disease as before, leaving him paralysed for almost 3 months. He's finally started to walk again 😍 Excited to get my life back too.

What?! ❤️‍🔥

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Trans. Men. Are. Not. A. Gotcha.

Thanks lovely! All the feels at once today x

Thanks friend! Will report back on any excellent vegan cakes I find 🫡

Selfie of a happy traveller on a train

Leaving my little Swedish island for a month of backpacking around Asia. It’s been too long a time since I did something like this. Bonus that it’s a research trip, a birthday and a major career milestone all in one.

My pleasure! It was a really fun and heartwarming show 🫶🏼

Thanks for reading! And for taking the time to let me know, I really appreciate that 👋🏼☺️

If you defend this or try and explain this away, you’re a monster and I don’t know how you sleep at night.

Tallinn Music Week 2025: The Estonian festival connects the dots like no other | Review Best Fit heads to Estonia for Tallinn Music Week and finds the festival’s ethos of togetherness more relevant and urgent than ever.

I was recently back in my beloved Tallinn for my first ever Tallinn Music Week and had quite a lot to say about it 👀

Poster for Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith's CORRESPONDENCES exhibition in Seoul, which opens on April 19 and runs through to July 20.

Handwritten note from Patti Smith, in English, with printed Korean translation.

If you happen to be in Seoul this weekend, Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith's latest Correspondences exhibition opens at the Piknic gallery. I've got a super small part in it, having written some text for the four new site-specific artworks they're presenting 🖤 Life is wild.

Done! I got a suspicious DM from "you" earlier asking to click and vote for you to win a co-hosting spot on a Spotify podcast – now reported as hacked

A statement about how Katy brand told a producer that she believed Russell brand was an abuser but producer didn’t care

Put up by Katy Brand today - this is the story over and over again

One week left until deadline to submit something! (April 10) Open call for essays, short memoirs and other forms of creative non-fiction for my next book: This Queer Arab Family.

As mentioned before: pen names can be used if you live somewhere where it’s risky for your personal safety.

Details👇

Dan Bejar's best songs, as chosen by him | Interview Destroyer's Dan Bejar talks to Best Fit about a kaleidoscopic career and his five favourite songs.

Got to chat to Dan Bejar about some of his proudest moments within and outside of the Destroyer catalogue and about his dazzling new album Dan’s Boogie for @thelineofbestfit.com

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Anoushka Shankar's best songs, as chosen by her | Interview Best Fit looks back with sitar master Anoushka Shankar on some of her personal favourites from a 30-year career.

I interviewed Anoushka Shankar recently and have been wearing out her records since. Her power! 🎧⚡️

Sickening, evil, totally in line with everything in No Other Land. The final footage sees a settler shoot co-director Basel Adra's cousin point-blank in the stomach with a rifle. An Oscar can't stop hate crimes

This week’s cover feature is a really excellent read by @liaminscoejones.bsky.social 🏆

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Release day! 🤗 Go listen

Kristin Hersh's best songs, as chosen by her | Interview Kristin Hersh looks back with Best Fit over five key songs from her multi-pronged career, now more than 40 years in the making.

In news that will shock no one, Kristin Hersh continues to be one of the most interesting people alive (sorry @kristinhersh.bsky.social but it’s true) 🖤

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YouTube video by kathryn joseph kathryn joseph - HARBOUR. (official video)

I’m always here for whatever Kathryn Joseph does, and WE WERE MADE PREY. is her strongest and bloodiest album yet. Honoured to have written the bio.

Coming May 30th
Get ready to eat well 🥩🐺

Thank you! Much appreciated 🫶🏼

Album sleeve for Correspondences Vol. II, a black and white background image with handwritten text and two inset images of leaves from Chernobyl on golden brown paper.

Huge day to be me, a lifelong Patti Smith fan, as her latest sound-poetry album with the brilliant Soundwalk Collective is announced. Astonishingly, I got to write the bio 🫨 Read all about it here: soundwalkcollective.bandcamp.com/album/corres...