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fergalkinney.bsky.social
Culture Editor of Tribune / also writes at New Statesman, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Face
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You’ll read on here with total conviction that Kneecap are sincere advocates for theocracy & as such should be proscribed - jail time, travel bans, finances frozen. Otherwise liberal minded people honestly need to think hard about their own role in building a draconian, illiberal anti-protest state.

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new: interviewed Adam Curtis for The Face about his really good and novel new series Shifty, as well as ketamine, Keir Starmer, Sally Rooney, Cafe Oto, revolution and the something strange that happened in his own work during the last decade. theface.com/life/adam-cu...

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new: interviewed Adam Curtis for The Face about his really good and novel new series Shifty, as well as ketamine, Keir Starmer, Sally Rooney, Cafe Oto, revolution and the something strange that happened in his own work during the last decade. theface.com/life/adam-cu...

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rewatched Love and Mercy last night and it’s pleasing how 2010s-y it’s vision of the 1960s now appears: Van Dyke Parks looks like some indie boy Brooklyn love interest for Marnie on Girls

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In our recent issue, ‘Facing the Future Again,’ Tribune culture editor Fergal Kinney explains how corporate consolidation is at the heart of the music industry's problems. Click below to read the full piece, now out from the paywall.

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my Tribune review of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine now free to read. Is Spotify evil? Yes! But is this also very convenient cover for the three major labels consolidating power and sucking money out of the industry? Yes!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

stuck on the fact from the NS profile that Starmer drinks Camden Hells, a very Grey Labour, Goalhanger Media, “no, the system is fixable, and we’re going to fix it” lager

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last night the Live 8 mastermind Sir Bob Geldof did not return my eye contact on the stairs of Hackney’s Earth venue

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fantastic evisceration of a widely celebrated, posh gentleman farmer polemic by @lucythraves.bsky.social for Tribune, with perceptive reflections about the Right to Roam campaign

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This devastating review of Patrick Galbraith’s Uncommon Ground by @lucythraves.bsky.social could burn the heather on a thousand grouse moors

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Extremely sobering and informative thread, clarifying the extent to which UK public services have cratered post-2010.

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third series of The Rehearsal where Nathan Fielder helps 250 Glastonbury staff more confidently convey their anxieties around overcrowding to Emily Eavis

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new: a publishing supernova of hastily commissioned Oasis books is coming to the shelves of Dads and Uncles near you. For @thequietus.com I read three of them. How do they confront what Oasis were for most of their career (I.e. appalling, making bad music)? thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

more writing! Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen is 40. For @thequietus.com I looked at how the unusual union of Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby created an album that would influence Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, closer to Thriller than it’s indie contemporaries. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

It's fun to read actual music writing! With, like, a structure and an overarching point that makes you think a little bit. It'll never take off.

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