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Getting Killed, by Geese 11 track album

Good new stuff this week...

Geese - Getting Killed - the remarkable rise of Geese continues apace, no one is sounding as good as this lot at the moment, Cameron Winter on a mad hot streak.

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Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation Mahmoud Khalil’s detention for his part in the pro-Palestine campus protests at Columbia was a chilling watershed moment for free speech in the US. Here, he talks to Nan Goldin about his ordeal, advocating...

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention for his part in the pro-Palestine campus protests at Columbia was a chilling watershed moment for free speech in the US. Here, he talks to Nan Goldin about his ordeal, advocating for Palestine, and the importance of hope

Better Late Than Never: Laughing Stock's Half Time Roundup 2025 The best things in music of the year so far

Our half year round up is here, where our writers pick their favourite music based things of the year so far. Feat. the likes of aya, Djrum, These New Puritans, fka twigs, MIKE, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Beatrice Dillion and more! Have a read/like/share: laughingstock.substack.com/p/better-lat...

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.

Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.

This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

In December 2023, the Israeli President Isaac Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired to massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

He belongs in the dock at The Hague, not platformed on the BBC.

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.

They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.

They were gunned down and murdered instead.

What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Stop selling arms to Israel then.

Rewire 2025: 6 Key Performances The Hague brings the best in weird music to justice over three thrilling nights

We went to Rewire in The Hague and had a wonderful time; here are 6 key performances in our 55th edition of Laughing Stock, feat. aya, Moin, @moreeazemusic.bsky.social & claire rousay, Kali Malone, Lord Spikeheart, and Panda Bear: laughingstock.substack.com/p/rewire-202...

James Butler | As the Met bruised in Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the doors...

‘Pacific, temperate, egalitarian, avowedly non-violent, the epitome of unimpeachable, quietist radicalism: if the police can do this to the Quakers, what could they do to you?’

James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on last week’s raid on a Quaker meeting house:
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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

An often-terrifying, overwhelming, intense, combustible screen presence like no other; an auteur-actor par excellence. RIP Gene Hackman.

For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.

This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

To a Land Unknown charts the tough path of two Palestinian refugees We speak to Aram Sabbah, star of To a Land Unknown, about his first major acting role and sneaking a keffiyeh onto the Cannes red carpet

“I had to sneak in my keffiyeh and bring it out on the red carpet” - sheer joy to chat to Aram Sabbah, breakout star of To a Land Unknown, a Sidney Lumet-inspired thriller about two exiled Palestinian cousins urgently seeking a way out of Athens @dazeddigital.com www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...

To a Land Unknown charts the tough path of two Palestinian refugees We speak to Aram Sabbah, star of To a Land Unknown, about his first major acting role and sneaking a keffiyeh onto the Cannes red carpet

We speak to Aram Sabbah, star of To a Land Unknown, about his first major acting role and sneaking a keffiyeh onto the Cannes red carpet

Laughing Stock 2025 Playlist · Will Palmer · 30 items · 7 saves

Our rolling 2025 playlists have been updated with very excellent songs from the likes of Quiet Husband, Barker, Darkside, Joy Orbison, Destroyer, fka twigs, AIOA & Iceboy Violet, and many many more. Listen and follow here on Sp*tify: open.spotify.com/playlist/22n...

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

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Laughing Stock | Substack The End of Music Writing. Click to read Laughing Stock, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Stop arming Israel.