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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hooker alert! It’s an exciting mail day because my extremely thrashed (hence affordable) 1639 copy of “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” has just arrived! However you identify on spicy Reformation debates, we can all agree that Richard Hooker is a terrific prose stylist

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Greatly enjoying the audiobook of this text by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social on England in the seventeenth century ; I listen to it at the gym while huffing and puffing. highly recommended!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So excited to read this (thanks to @pedantscrusade.bsky.social for the recommendation)

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HIGH ZERO dance party scene report:

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Get your tickets folks! mark your calendars: July 1-4, of 2027 you’re going to be in Canterbury attending this ridiculously stacked festival of weird music w Foetus, Test Dept, Zoviet France, Lustmord, Carl Stone, Negativland, People Like Us, Matmos, Soft Pink Truth and more!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The show must go on!” Despite recent turbulence (see my husband’s recent posts: we are ok but somebody tried to burn our house down), I am still altogether chuffed to perform tonight with John Wiese at this ridiculously stacked bill in Richmond, VA

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this summer in Beijing I had my head split open by an amazing festival called You and Me that was organized by 19 year old Zhao Ziyi. I have a feature article in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social about this festival and Yan Jun and Mattin’s performances in particular. Check it out!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

After two and a half months of adventures, the Matmos tourcation of Planet Earth is over! Too much to say to fit in a post. You can read my rambling thoughts here 👇

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

hey Bay Area people! MATMOS, DICK SLESSIG COMBO, and JEROD S RIVERA are all going to perform this coming Saturday night at @grayarea.org in the beautiful Mission district of San Francisco! You should come! bring all of your loved ones too!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

the last night of the You and Me festival in Beijing took place in a (literally) underground location

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I am « in my feelings » that this poetry anthology is going to come out after years of labor with my fabulous co-editors- I have some thoughts and more context which won’t fit in one post so I’ve written it all out below: 👇

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you read only one essay this year that features the words "seafood jacuzzi", let it be this one: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Greetings from the water park inside the New Century Global Center in Chengdu aka the world’s largest building

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We found a “money tree” yesterday also! Wanted to give it a shake but it was under glass

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yesterday we put a human birthday in perspective by visiting a gingko tree that is more than a thousand years old

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

pstttt there’s a pretty sick deep techno party tonight in Shanghai at Heim

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

at Xi An Xiao Chi (« Xi An Snack ») in Shanghai there’s a bowl of raw garlic at every table and you’re supposed to peel a clove and nibble some of it between every delicious bite of oily spicy noodles

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

so we are in this city called Shanghai and

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It’s my mother’s 82nd birthday today! Give it up for Kathleen everybody!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Posing up a storm at the Palgrave booth at the WSC conference because actual print copies of Catherine Bates and James Stone’s edited collection « Shakespeare & Psychoanalysis » (for which I wrote the afterword) have arrived. Embrace your symptoms, everyone!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

when Reviewer #2 suggests deep cuts:

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Verona we are in you (I’m here for a week long Shakespeare conference and M.C. Schmidt is fancy free)

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sometimes you find a painting of the infant Jesus where he is just chilling so hard

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

[sound on] Tortelloni with Gorgonzola at Trattoria Serghei scene report:

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hey! Are you in Bologna this Friday? It will be my birthday and I will be playing a Matmos show at Rione San Nicolo as part of the BOtanique Festival! You should come! 🥂💋🇮🇹🍉🐈👍🎉🎂🥳🎈

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Chateau de Chillon scene report:

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s so nice here it feels hyperreal- we can see snow on the peaks of the opposite side of Lac Leman - one of the most stunning places I have ever been

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

[sound on] scene report: swimming with a swan in Switzerland

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

just finished re-reading Kierkegaard / just started re-reading De Quincey (one of the pleasures of growing older is re-reading)

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

RIP Kjell Nilsson aka Lord Humungus “Be still my dog of war”

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Just had a meet up with international man of mystery @fucktheory.bsky.social at one of Athen’s most elite new dining spots

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here’s an Anti-AI poster in the same zone- Google Translate says the headline is “we are not algorithms, we want free, unruly lives” - here’s its attempt at a translation of the body text

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Not my picture, but this is a pic of a sign at a bar in the same Exarchia neighborhood- it’s a broadly held solidarity stance here.

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This poster, quite pointedly in English, is everywhere here:

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We are staying in Exarchia in Athens, a hilltop zone of super narrow streets heavily covered in graffiti that our hosts tell us is known as “the anarchist neighborhood”- there are a lot of riot police with shields around at night, apparently to protect the proposed new infrastructure projects

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Absolutely loved this novel. incredibly well done- and a template for much that follows. Can’twait to see the Visconti film adaptation and compare. Becuase we are traveling for months I’m setting it free for other readers in our hotel lobby.

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Οι MATMOS και Jay Glass Dubs θα εμφανιστούν απόψε στην Αθήνα στο Plyfa Space.

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Thanks to our hosts & everyone who came out to see us at Archa+ in Praha! 🇨🇿 A ridiculously beautiful city full of architectural treasures, rad vegan restaurants, beer nirvana, & charming people. It had been 14 years and that’s too long - but damn, you sure kept it hot for us! next stop: Athens! 🇬🇷

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

SORBITOL DROPS scene report [sound on]:

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

beat the heat with spicy, sour turnip juice

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

HEy! YOu! MATMOS plays Praha, CZ at Archa+ tomorrow! Come see us!

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

There is no gateway to hell but there is a

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Chilling so hard with Jan St Werner and his Sound Practice Research students in Essen, DE ; first we played a Matmos show in the basement then made a new collectively authored piece in the seminar and then we all performed it together the following day at Neue Musik Zentrale

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I had a great conversation with @purityolympics.bsky.social and you can read it at the link below (thanks to the Creative Independent!)

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

my favorite eerily intact Roman structure in that city is the tomb of Cestus (Piramide metro stop)

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