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    The Fall

    Culture
    Charlie Bertsch / 13 Oct 2021

    The Sixties Are Forever

    Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows, by Wild Billy Childish & CTMF

    Since his early days with the Pop Rivets in the late 1970s, Billy Childish's music has been remarkably consistent.(...)

    Culture
    Charlie Bertsch / 12 Jun 2020

    Working-Class Cosplay

    Sleaford Mods’ All That Glue

    As I stared up at the mountains I love, glowing a beautiful and terrifying orange, trying to suppress a cough that just kept coming, listening to the new Sleaford Mods collection All That Glue was surreal. (...)

    Culture
    Charlie Bertsch / 18 Mar 2020

    Burying The Fall

    Jan St. Werner’s Molecular Meditation

    Molecular Meditation, the new collaboration between Jan St. Werner – half of the influential Berlin duo Mouse on Mars – and Mark E. Smith – the deceased frontman of post-punk stalwarts The Fall – is a proudly self-indulgent record. (...)

    New angry Britain. IDLES at the Bedford Esquires, March 2017.
    Culture
    Charlie Bertsch / 30 Oct 2019

    Nothing is New Anymore

    The Paradox of the IDLES

    Listening to IDLES’ forthcoming live LP, A Beautiful Thing – not to mention the albums that preceded it,  Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018) and Brutalism (2017) – is by turns exhilarating and exhausting. (...)

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