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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here is an interview with Daphne and Celeste following the legendary performance at Reading Festival where they got pelted off stage by Slipknot fans

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

third time this year that i have been denied a press ticket to review something for a major uk newspaper bc the pr is not allocating tickets for 'regional' dates.....music industry becoming more london-centric again in context of shuttering outlets/pr favouring influencers over critics feels bad!

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

beautiful record!!!! got my cd yday and it is blasting as we speak bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it’s bruce springsteen’s birthday gotta hit em with the pic

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 21/09/2026

film friends - i'd love to update my ongoing guide to getting started in film journalism. if you have anything to add or that you think needs updating please give me a shout!! (esp for paying outlets to add to the list....) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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So You Want To Be A Film Writer...

So, You Want To Be A Film Writer… An Introductory Guide to Making it in Film Journalism Based on largely anecdotal experience Written by Hannah Strong Who you can tip here :) CONTENTS ...

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

old house with long driveway and the people inside it have Secrets

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My longread on the cult of Mussolini and Italy’s far right for anyone with the time and inclination of a Saturday morning. Last punt - it’s the first biggish piece I’ve had published from Italy.

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Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

remembering the grindcore goat

crowd at the grindcore show watching the singer of wormrot (iirc). there's a goat in the audience. she's having a nice time

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my new @lwlies.com column is out! i wrote about the relationship between concert films and the audience – when to replicate an experience and when to create one that is singular – featuring pulp, ryuichi sakamoto, r.e.m., david byrne &c. read and subscribe!! mailchi.mp/tcolondon/al...

pale yellow graphic overlaid with a picture of four sillouettes against a red-orange sun projected on the back of a dark stage. the header reads 'THE LETTER BY CLAIRE BIDDLES'.

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Many of these films aim to re-articulate the feeling of being an audience member at the show. But what if watching a concert film was its own original experience, rather than a recreation? In December 2022, I tuned into Playing the Piano, a livestreamed performance by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Shot in black and white by his son, Neo Sora (director of Happyend), the recording shows no live audience, no accompanying musicians, no other visible people in the room. Although billed as Sakamoto’s final performance – he died of cancer just three months later – it was actually a constructed film edited together from footage shot over the course of a week, as Sakamoto was too weak to perform for an uninterrupted hour.

Although stemming from necessity, the decision to assemble Sakamoto’s ‘performance’ from several separate performances actually adds to the poetry of the final film, which was released in a slightly altered cut as Opus in 2023. This is an audience experience that can’t be recreated, because it never happened in the first place.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I am not asking for much I just want to know when the UK will get You Can See Everything

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

new shudder to think ep out today, feeling blessed shuddertothink.bandcamp.com/album/who-se...

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Who Sent You?, by Shudder To Think

3 track album

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moonie 🌻🌾⛅ @moonix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

ao3 e-mails are the only e-mails that find me well

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i wrote about pulp's live album, and how being primarily a live act (as opposed to a recording act) during their reunion era has seen them shift from a head band to a heart band

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🗣 new wire!!! 🗣 i reviewed releases by coil, xiu xiu, alicia witt, angelo badalementi, haruomi hosono and alexander ortolan!! and i LOVED reading the invisible jukebox with pamela z!

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

breakfast on pluto + dead poets society on the same afternoon some are saying it's a dream double bill for claire biddles

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An exhibition of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt in Reform’s heartland captures the contrast between artistic and electoral populism. @msclairebiddles.bsky.social writes for Tribune on the monuments of the people.

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Monuments of the People

An exhibition of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt in Reform’s heartland captures the contrast between artistic and electoral populism.

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

my new @lwlies.com column is out! I used the recent on-set pics of the beatles quadrilogy as an excuse to rave about THE HOURS AND TIMES, christopher münch's criminally underseen queer beatles speculative fiction film – and advocate for fanfic as an artform more generally! mailchi.mp/tcolondon/ca...

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Having an absolutely existential year re: freelancing so any shares etc would be much appreciated! Would love to have more live illustration/scribing jobs coming in - will happily work out flat rates/sliding scale rates for the third sector/charities x

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lottie brazier @lottiebrazier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hello! Excited to announce second single 'Take a Bow' off my forthcoming album 'On Course But No-One There To Salute You' - news about that to follow v soon. Watch the music video for 'Take a Bow' below, thrilled to finally share this weird postpunk/acid houseish/italo thing youtu.be/DOtEAXzVKk4?...

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Lottie Brazier - Take a Bow (Official Video)

YouTube video by Hand of Glory Records

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

luv to look up literally anything that's wrong with me physically and have the answer be 'it's just stress :)' oh cool i'll just sort that out then x

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

writing for tsj quite literally changed my life and introduced me to dozens of friends for life. do it!!!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/08/2026

‘The heritage of a civic arts centre belongs to the community it serves. Before it went into voluntary liquidation on 30 January, the CCA was a publicly funded, multidisciplinary arts institution.’ Helen Charman on Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...

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Helen Charman | Save the CCA

The entire contents of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow were auctioned off by a commercial asset sales...

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ICYMI, I joined Fansplaining for a post-mortem podcast on The Vampire Lestat, recorded with a bit more distance from the season finale! Loved getting to hear more from Vampire Chronicles experts Elizabeth and Flourish, covering a lot of topics I haven't discussed elsewhere.

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Special Episode 39: The Vampire Lestat

“Congratulations for your historical proximity to me.”

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

new l'rain album slaps as is customary!! lrain.bandcamp.com/album/fata-m...

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fata morgana, by L'Rain

13 track album

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

big fan of the 1987 album ‘the joshua tree’ by irish rock group u2

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

how about listening to this playlist while u read my invisible jukebox interview with jennifer in the current issue of the wire :))

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Love it when I ask a band a good question and they say 'that's a good question'. I deeply require it. It's the only thing holding me together.

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

when I employ an unusual metaphor to slag something off in an album review

a sign on the side of a building that says ‘the artful critic’

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Chris Richards @chrisrichards.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today, I’m launching a quarterly review of the BEST NEW FANZINES Submit yours for next time to THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE / P.O. Box 60182 / Washington D.C. 20039 Meantime, make a fanzine, read a fanzine, encounter a fanzine here: open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...

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'It's always been someone's apocalypse'

THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE's quarterly review of significant fanzines.

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

went to london and lowkey didnt tell anyone bc I wanted some solo culture time. within two days I have bumped into a glasgow acquaintance in the cafe oto queue, met someone else at oto who grew up on my street 50 years ago, been served by a mutual friend of like 20 of my friends in the french house

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lauren T @laurenthomsn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Life Without Buildings, mono, glasgow 24.07.26

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Collective listening events respond to a cultural need, but are at risk of co-option by wellness and lifestyle marketeers, argues Derek Walmsley in The Wire 511 Read the full essay here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

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Against The Grain: Collective listening events - The Wire

Collective listening events respond to a cultural need, but are at risk of co-option by wellness and lifestyle marketeers, argues Derek Walmsley in The Wire 511

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I legit had a sore throat after recording this which I think is an indication of how passionate and lengthy our commentary is x

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

me: so nice to go to loads of things this month that I’m not reviewing so I can just enjoy them on my own terms and not feel pressured to have an opinion :) also me: [sends my friend eight minute voice note analysis of the concert I went to last night]

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Mindless Ones @mindlessones.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Issue #70 of our newsletter is out now ft. Action, Ballard, The Bridge, Forteana, "Maybe everyone is policemen?", Penelope Shuttle, sweaty balls, Those Amusing Brothers and more! "Mind Burial, mind hauntology? It’s back, in pog form."

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We are someone else's property

ITEM A Brief History of British Comics 25: Action Publisher – IPC Magazines 14 February 1975 - 5 November 1977 86 issues It was the glinting lights of the town in the distance that did it. Those tin...

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

commissioned to review a westlife concert in the middle of reviewing a ten day festival of cutting edge audio visual art............love to have a weird job

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bleary (feat. Akon) @bleary.off-the-records.com · 07/08/2026

Early Manic Street Preachers lyric: Molotov intransigence burning down fascist palace Holocaust death march leads to cigarette glasnost Later Manic Street Preachers lyrics: Hey did you see Last night on BBC3 The show about Welsh rugby? Well worth the license fee

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🗣️new wire!!!🗣️ i had a hoot speaking with jennifer herrema (royal trux/black bananas) for this month's issue, feat. tales of pro wrestlers, seeing van halen live aged 10, meeting mark e. smith and not understanding what he was saying, &c. i also reviewed releases by felicia atkinson + dinosaur jr!

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 03/08/2026

Just Work. An all new comic about the gig economy, platform capitalism, delivery riders, and their battle for worker rights. You can read a responsive phone/desktop/tablet friendly online version of it - for FREE - here: tomhumberstone.com/just-work

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Just Work | Tom Humberstone

Just Work

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

had a god tier idea after three pints last night

screenshot of notes app reading ‘Lip sync to william friedkin cruising bluray commentary’

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

happy new music friday today I listened to scritti politti’s cupid & psyche 85 eight times in a row

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