Lucy Thraves

lol, talk about Theatre of the Absurd

This evening on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social plays music by Dälek, Kavari (pictured), Yellow Swans, Jessica Williams, RP Boo, Caius Williams and Tara Cunningham, and many more.

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📷 by Spit Turner

This year I've noticed high fashion piggybacking on experimental cultures that are much more precarious and amorphous than it.

Is this new? What effect does it have? Is it even a problem?

Attempted to answer these questions in this short end-of-year essay for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Lucy Thraves presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire The 6 November edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Ivor Cutler, Teoniki Rożynek, TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more

Listen back to last Thursday's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social
and included music by Ivor Cutler, Teoniki Rożynek, TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more

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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound and Music, playing tracks by Ivor Cutler, Meredith Monk (pictured), TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more.

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📷 by Amber Mahoney

Chatted to claire rousay for this month's Wire cover. We spoke about sobriety, San Antonio, field recordings, atonement, William Basinski’s clothes, living in cities, the confessional mode, self sacrifice & much besides. Her new album a little death comes out end of Oct.

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The Wire 501.

Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday.

end-of-summer shoe

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Adventures In Sound And Music returns after its summer break, with @lucythraves.bsky.social playing music by Ornette Coleman Trio, Weston Olencki, feeo, Valentina Magaletti & YPY & many more.

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Still find it surreal that I get to contribute to the life of this miraculous publication. To be soppy and grandiose about it (what else are milestones for?), it's changing my life, which is kind of what it does, if you let it.

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This is both correct, and not radical enough: we should ban 99% of all privately-owned cars from inner cities. Blue badge holders, emergency services, finite number of permits for commercial deliveries, buses, bikes, and that’s it. No able-bodied person in Zone 1 actually needs a Land Rover, sorry.

ooof

I hear rumours that 2035 is going to beat both of them!

Devastated at the news about JD Twitch. Keith has been a constant in our lives and all those who love music. Sending love to his family and Jonnie❤️ @optimo-espacio.bsky.social

I reviewed a new book about land access by a writer purporting to be a neutral observer to that debate.

It turns out, that's a lie.

Some sonic soup for the soul

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by DJ Marcelle, Mark Stewart (pictured), Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders, B Abbas & R Abou-Rahme & more.

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📷 Leon Chew

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A sad old man hunched over his drink in a bar. The subtitle reads “This era has lasted a century, and so I thought it would go on forever.”

The men at the bar listen as the old man continues, “but when you think about it, there’s no basis for that at all”

This 1990s anime’s ability to capture the mood of America 2025 is uncanny

Monday or Tuesday Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out! A mountain? Oh, perfect - the sun gold on its slopes. Down that falls. Ferns then, or white feathers, for ever and ever - Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, for ever desiring - (a cry starts to the left, another to the right. Wheels strike divergently. Omnibuses conglomerate in conflict) - for ever desiring - (the clock asseverates with twelve distinct strokes that it is midday;' light sheds gold scales; children swarm) - for ever desiring truth. Red is the dome; coins hang on the trees; smoke trails from the chimneys; bark, shout, cry 'Iron for sale' - and truth? Radiating to a point men's feet and women's feet, black or gold-encrusted - (This foggy weather - Sugar? No, thank you - The commonwealth of the future) - the firelight darting and making the room red, save for the black figures and their bright eyes, while outside a van discharges, Miss Thingummy drinks tea at her desk, and plate-glass preserves fur coats - Flaunted, leaf-light, drifting at corners, blown across the wheels, silver-splashed, home or not home, gathered, scattered, squandered in separate scales, swept up, down, torn, sunk, assembled - and truth? Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble. From ivory depths words rising shed their blackness, blossom and penetrate. Fallen the book; in the flame, in the smoke, in the momentary sparks - or now voyaging, the marble square pendant, minarets beneath and the Indian seas, while space rushes blue and stars glint - truth? or now, content with closeness? Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them.

Desiring truth

Virginia Woolf, ‘Monday or Tuesday’

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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new and recent releases by Goldie (pictured), Quade, Donna Candy, OHYUNG, aya, and many more.

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📷 by Gus Coral

unbelievable stuff. looney tunes shit

I'll be talking to Toby Manning about his Marxist history of pop this Wednesday in Walthamstow.

Fanks Joe x

Interviewed Infinity Knives for the issue of The Wire. Life is tough; smoking a cig (backwards) helps

‘We’re just terrified’: People evacuate homes after sinkhole appears on Surrey high street Water supply turned off in Godstone as 20-metre hole swallows up a garden

i feel like the only person who could possibly get close to making sense of sinkholes - aesthetically, narratively, even scientifically - is M John Harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A beauty ❤️