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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Primer by @derekwalmsley.bsky.social. Illustration by Savage Pencil.

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Inside The Wire 512: Aphex Twin Primer Richard D James is the mischievous wizard behind the era's most thrilling electronic music, from ambient experiments to drill 'n' bass and off yer face acid, in a journey spanning Cornish bedrooms, global festival stages and MTV www.thewire.co.uk/issues/512

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PSA: quite busy with this and that and the other thing at the moment, so if you don't hear from me, try again.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Watching a rock star doc tonight which genuinely sounds scripted by AI. Some great contributors but all this “the international pop icon disappeared from the public view and was rumoured to be a recluse… but went on to influence a brand new generation of global singer songwriters”

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really sad to hear about the death of of Sway. He sounded like no-one else in the mid-2000s around the time that grime was popping off, including his verse here www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGRx...

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Harvey Nicks - The Mitchell Brothers

YouTube video by thebeats

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coyote vs Acme at the flicks for the second time today

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fascinating piece by Drew Daniel this.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Back from the bunker with this piece freshly turned from the lathe, a survey of recordings of Aphex Twin, from pseudonyms and limted eds to SoundCloud dumps. Loved being inside this world

Mike Watt on the cover of the October issue of The Wire

Inside magazine spread of the Aphex Twin Primer

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@rickburin.bsky.social there might be problems in this world, but Joe Root has hit a 50.

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Do you usually buy The Wire from your local TG Jones store? Is it one of the stores that is closing down? You can buy single issues of the magazine from our online shop, or you can take out a subscription, and get free membership to our complete online library. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

BBC News leads, rightly, with the drought. The tone is serious, the content detailed. But no mention of man-made climate change let alone climate emergency (have to wait for explainer afterwards). No mention of 20% of clean water supply lost by disastrous privatised companies.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Enjoyed watching this for The Wire, some thoughts on the distinctive experience of listening events like Polygon Portal and Pitchblack Playback, what makes them tick, and how they could keep them fresh

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

At present Wordcounter seems to suffer from an approximately 13 second delay from when you paste your text in to when it finally gives you the total, which should be, like, banned by the Geneva Convention or something

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Love these. Looking through old hi-fi ads is a really powerful experience – a vision of the future what was

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AIWA HS-JS415 (1994)

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Walkman, 1980

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Gig photographers: stop taking pics in black and white! It's not 1959.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I also found this absolutely shocking. The theory that the Earth is flat is becoming a growing fault line in online bantz. But….

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This terrific piece is not part of the genre of Beatles interviews

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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

As a freelancer, if there's one phrase that makes me twitch like Herbert Lom in the Pink Panther films, it's "Raise a Purchase Order".

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Come for the music intel, stay for the A-class pun action

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Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's being reported that Julio Le Parc has died. I met Le Parc in Paris (for this @friezeofficial.bsky.social feature www.frieze.com/article/peri...) nearly thirteen years ago and liked him a lot. There was something impish and irrepressible about him even then, at 84 years old.

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Peripheral Visions

For more than 50 years, the Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc has been exploring spectatorship, movement and participation. Following a major survey show at the Palais de Tokyo, Robert Barry considers ...

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Richard Dawson: the complete reverb tapes.

Richard Dawson talks about reverb in the music of the Fateh Ali Khan party in The Wire’s Invisible Jukebox feature.

Richard Dawson talks about reverb in the music of Quinie in The Wire’s Invisible Jukebox feature.

Richard Dawson talks about reverb in the music of PJ Harvey

RD on reverb or the absence thereof in the music of The Velvet Underground

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John Chantler @inventingzero.net · 02/06/2026

joyous invisible jukebox in this month's wire with richard 'hows yr reverb' dawson. what a top human.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Plus I visited the Archipel festival in Geneva, where Antoine Läng did a radio thing on the role of journalism in music with Hanne Wagner, Wioleta Zochowska + me. They both had great things to say! You might find their work at positionen.berlin, seismograf.org etc www.mixcloud.com/FestivalArch...

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Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Some very cool stuff in the brand new Wire, including a great window onto the weirdo music scene over on Vancouver Island in Emily Pothast’s EarthBall feature, and I reviewed this and that including an amazing effectively new Margareth Kammerer album

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So sad to her about this loss of the very great, and very generous, Steve Barrow. When The Congos played in London last year, he was the only person they gave a shout out to from the stage. Imagine just how great a reissue label must be to be that guy who gets a namecheck from the band.

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026) The great saxophonist has died aged 95. We have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart Nicholson’s essay on 1956's Saxophone Colossus. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

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Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026) - The Wire

The great saxophonist has died aged 95. As a tribute, we have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library for one month, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart N...

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So sad to hear of the death of Sonny Rollins. Way back in the day I bought any live jazz disc that had Village Vanguard or Birdland on it. This one was nothing I'd ever heard before, the saxophone telling stories worth entire novels or films www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5p...

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A Night In Tunisia (Afternoon Take / Live At The Village Vanguard/1957)

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins - Topic

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Going to spend the afternoon listening to versions of "Mirrors" by Joe Chambers

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Bastion of indie cultural writing tQ is searching for more subscribers to help it keep going. Bung em some love.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Little shoutout to Tony Rettman’s avant rock column. Tony writes about a hoard of scuzzy, scummy and generally kick ass rock, most of which I don’t know, which is always worth its weight in gold

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The brand new Wire is out! A tonne of good stuff as ever, amid which, I wrote about sound system culture finding new venues in London, and two new Keith Jarrett films

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i made a new zine about the (many) similarities between david foster wallace's postmodern classic infinite jest and queer hockey series heated rivalry – my two primary obsessions of the past few months. i made stickers too! available here if you are the same kind of insane as me: fwyl.bigcartel.com

my hand holding up a zine against a red wall. the cover reads 'there are actually quite a lot of similarities between infinite jest and heated rivalry when you look into it, an investigation by claire biddles'. there's a picture of shane hollander reading infinite jest in bed on the cover.

my hand holding up a blue circular sticker reading 'infinite jest' in the heated rivalry font, against a red wall.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'd quite forgotten about that Wailing Souls song. Remarkable to have two great reggae songs titled and themed so similarly.

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Tom Waits' Shiver me Timbers is another excellent one, though I guess to be fair it's not *necessarily* about fishing

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The Congos. The Waterboys. Are all songs about Fisherman amazing?

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Independent press latest! While I was away, The Wire put out the call to help support them in their ongoing quest to highlight the best goddamn music in the world.

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The latest – loved writing about the The Cabs’ new live album for @thequietus.com, reflecting on what live performance of electronic music is all about

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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I’ve told this story before, but a decade or so ago I had the opportunity to buy some of Andy Kershaw’s records - though not direct from Andy, via a record dealer friend of his. Some came with little notes and letters. Precious objects. God speed.

Tabu Ley - Afrisa Selection. There is a handwritten note on the sleeve.

“To Andy. Good souvenir to London for this night.”

Close up of the inscription. “To Andy. Good souvenir to London for this night.”

A letter to Andy Kershaw.

Andy Kershaw
BBC
Radio
One
Broadcasting
House
W1
11 Liston Road
London SW4 0DG
01-622 0111
6 Oct 1987
Dear
Andy
I warned you there was more to come. Well here's part of it!
sort out a mix-up.
time I sent you a white
copied from my Fire Family cover.
record inside was not
the Fire Family.
to put in its sleeve,
Unfortunately I don't have any details of the tracks by
now find that Amayenge.
Amayenge.
I also enclose
a batch of
45's,
most of them by Amayange.
I saw the group
live in Zambia, twice.
They are basically a six-
piece (drums,
bass,
two guitars, lead male singer & percussion)
plus two girl singers and two boy dancers.
The percussionist
joins the two boys dancers, doing what used to be called gymnastics when I was at school--flip flops.
somersaults,
cartwheels--while the band keeps up a very fast
beat
behind all
the action.
One of the boys is
about nine,
and is more or less a
contortionist, doubling over backwards until his hands are flat on the floor, and then flipping over onto his feet.
All in all, Amayenge would be an entertaining group to play
live here;
Zambia Airways
and
a firm
called
between them to pay for the group's
Zamcargo
have
agreed
flights
to London
and living
expenses while they are here.
Stuart Lyons is ready
them.
Naturally, they are itching
but
to promote
to come
it's a
bit
inefficient if there's no record out;
over,
so I have said i would
see
if I could find an interested record company.
DiscAfrique,
Globestyle, and Earthworks would seem to be the most likely, and
I am supplying them with samples.
Finally, I also enclose the notes prepared by Ben Shumba at
Teal Records, which relate to all the records he sent.
I plan to
send you the rest of the records when you've had chance to work through this batch, but if the notes make you impatient to hear a particular record, let me know and I'll send it/them.
Happy listening
Call me to fix our get together!

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