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Esben & The Witch interview
Esben & The Witch caught Hg’s attention in a major way with their recent debut EP, 33. He made contact with them just prior to their appearance at the End Of The Road festival in September to find out more … Continue reading
The Importance Of Elsewhere
I love it when you stumble upon something completely unexpected that fires up your imagination. This happened to me last Friday. I was driving down the Maidstone Road into Chatham, intent on going to the Look At Medway photography exhibition … Continue reading
Kristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 26 March 2008 As a teenager, I used to write to Ivo, the founder of 4AD Records. I would tell him how beautiful the music of the Cocteau Twins was (as though he didn’t already know), … Continue reading
The London Nobody Knows
We’re losing our cultural backwaters: those undefinable nooks, crannies and dead ends, the quirks of our national existence that only ever gained our attention as a source of low-level irritation until we began to notice them by their absence. The … Continue reading
Nasty Little Notices
I’ve recently been fortunate to spend time in Germany and Belgium, two places where I felt very much at home. I had a sense of being treated like a rational, responsible adult. It was assumed that I knew how to … Continue reading