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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

The French Revolution but with mini wrist-guillotines for people who make that heart shape with their hands.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 years

Laughed so hard reading this I had an asthma attack and was temporarily convinced I was going to die. All for the love of Sleve McDichael.

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John Doran

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3 years

Primal Scream celebrating Screamadelica’s 30th birthday in style.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

1 year

My website The Quietus is in massive trouble but you can help. We need 350 new subscribers to stay alive & are offering a huge discount off our top two tiers. I explain everything here... (Please share if you're feeling it dear hearts.)

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5 years

GET READY FOR SCHOOL OR I WILL PUT AUTECHRE ON.

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John Doran

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1 year

DGAF if Nick Cave is going to the Coronation or not BUT isn't the real story the fact he was invited in the first place? "Hey Camilla, what's that song I like? You know, 'I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole'? We've got to have him there..."

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John Doran

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1 year

What is the greatest live rock album of all time? And why is it Space Ritual? Happy half a century to Hawkwind’s masterpiece.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

5 years

There are some obits circulating referring to Scott Walker as a recluse. FWIW I found him to be warm, funny & generous on both occasions I met him. He wasn't a recluse, he had just grown tired of the music industry. Debunking Scott Walker myths:

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John Doran

@JahDuran

10 months

Sleaford Mods sound heavier than Extreme Noise Terror from stage left… Amazing set.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

9 months

Sure camping is really great and everything but have you ever just sat in a chair and listened to a record?

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

I've upped my weekly donation to @Guardian to a full subscription. Whatever it gets wrong doesn't come anywhere near outweighing the disaster that will befall the media landscape in this country without it. Anyone gloating about its potential closure is a fucking simpleton.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 years

"Now then St Peter, I know I'm early - it was fucking Bobson Dugnutt who did for me."

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

I won’t deny it... after 50+ features online it was a buzz to get my first byline in the print edition of the Guardian today. Trailed on the front page n’all.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

10 months

I don't often do this but if you'll indulge me, here's the set list for what @SteveSnooker & I played at Wembley on Saturday with some snaps. (Oh, and I've already said how great @sleafordmods were & I missed Self Esteem but @jockstrapmusic1 were... 1/?

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

14 yrs dry.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 years

FFS. Went to bed. Lasted 30 seconds before laughing about Bobson Dugnutt and woke up GF. Now I have to sleep on the sofa.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

1 year

Absolute fair play to Sam Smith for having a go but anyone making a direct equivalence between Kansai Yamamoto and Steve from Pentonville World Of Rubber needs to check themselves for signs of concussion.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

Very sad to hear about the death of Florian Schneider. Kraftwerk are not only one of my favourite bands but they're the cornerstone of what The Quietus is about, as I laid out over a decade ago in this feature.

The Quietus

@theQuietus

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From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, motorik & the pulse of modernity, by @JahDuran

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John Doran

@JahDuran

1 year

24 hours ago I told you that The Quietus was doomed, unless we attracted 350 more subscribers. Since then 290 people have signed up. I'm overwhelmed, buoyed, extremely happy at the sheer generosity & community spirit you have all shown! v. short 🧵

The Quietus | Features | Facing The Music: We Need You To Subscribe To The Quietus

We’ve recently had to strip back what the Quietus does, closing down our film and arts sections and have reluctantly put our books section on ice. In order to protect our music coverage we need at...

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

. @PrivateEyeNews may be culturally conservative but they’ve got the exact fucking measure of grubby bastards Primal Scream. Question the motives any rich Gen Xer still preaching rebellion and ‘rock ‘n roll’ as he slides into his decrepitude.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

6 years

Slow fucking handclap to every single news outlet for not spotting that the real story is that one of the world's leading auction houses may have conspired with an artist to artificially manipulate the market for his shitty paintings. @Sothebys #Banksy

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John Doran

@JahDuran

6 years

In an unlikely turn of events, my debut show for @BBCRadio4 airs next Tues AM about The Myth Of Aphex Twin ft. David Toop, Vic Reeves, Leila Arab, Scanner & Ryan Wyer. Tell yer mam. @AphexTwin #AlbertoBalsam #LogonRockWitch #CornishAcid

BBC Radio 4 - The Cult of Aphex Twin

Music writer John Doran ventures into the strange world of Richard D James.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

The good people at @guardianmusic kindly asked me to name the music that helped define the decade just gone, so I said Sunn O))) obviously. This is also an essay about heavy metal coming in from the cold. More power to @IdeologicOrgan @TwatterLord

We're doomed: how Sunn O))) made metal for the masses

With their positivity, euphoria and transcendence, the group open up a portal for converts to metal, turning it into high art

www.theguardian.com

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John Doran

@JahDuran

8 months

The Quietus is 15 today! I slung some words together and @LukeTurnerEsq has detailed the insane wealth of words and music we've given away to subscribers over the last two years. Here are some photos, including an action shot of me at the Megatron v2!

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John Doran

@JahDuran

9 months

15 years dry.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

I'm not saying my eyes are deteriorating quickly but I was just shocked to see this photograph of Polly Harvey wearing a knock-off Kappa trackie top from the Tontine Market in St Helens.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 months

STOP! Stop whatever it is you're doing now* and put FAUST IV on the best stereo system available to you, and play it two notches above the level you're comfortable with for this time of day. You can thank me afterwards. (*Doesn't apply to surgeons, bus drivers etc.)

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

I'm very sad to hear about the death of Andy Fletcher. Essentially he was the means of communication between Dave Gahan and Martin Gore. Depeche Mode continued to exist because of him. I talked to him about this – or at least tried to – 13 years ago.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

I’ve never been happier to be teetotal.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

Anyone comparing Shame, IDLES or Protomartyr to The Fall should be sentenced to hard labour.

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4 years

The Fall cast a long shadow, and you can hear their echo in IDLES, Protomartyr, Parquet Courts, Fontaines DC, Shame, Sleaford Mods, and other current groups...

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John Doran

@JahDuran

6 years

Drink the long draught. RIP.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

Very pleased that the people who told me to ��calm down LOL” about Mumford & Sons years ago are now obviously going to apologise in public.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

1 year

Ah, can anyone see this? I've gone down to zero followers again. Cannot be arse with this.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

Richard Madeley looking like me at my absolute best in 1992 there. He’s probably on his way to his local record shop to see if RevCo’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy 12” has turned up yet, then on to the park for a single skinner and the crossword. Respect.

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@nickw84

4 years

Amazing photoset of Richard Madeley walking down the street drinking Corona today

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

I’ve just washed my hair, had a shave, put my favourite trousers on and spent 15 minutes choosing a T-shirt because I’m going to the Co-Op for a pint of milk.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

1 year

Thank you.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

5 years

I hate being combative on social media, so when I do it, you can, for what it's worth, at least take it as read I feel very strongly about it. If you work in the music industry and you're currently of the opinion that jazz/experimental/DIY programming being restricted... 1/?

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

Dropping acid in a stone circle if anyone cares to join me.

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@guardian

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What are you planning to do to mark Brexit day?

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John Doran

@JahDuran

5 years

Which life changing album did you buy from HMV? For me, the first was Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain. Thank you HMV Liverpool. I went in a happy 14 year old in a Dire Straits T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan 'Money for nothing; chicks for free' and emerged...

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John Doran

@JahDuran

5 years

*takes 8 sheets of A4 out of pocket* "I'd like to thank God, Jimmy The Saint, Barry The Barber, my life coach Cyril, the person who invented cheese..." The Aphex Twin doc that @barneytree & I made for @BBCRadio4 has won Gold at the New York Radio Awards

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

Much respect to the charity shops of Devizes... Two quid...

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John Doran

@JahDuran

10 months

You couldn’t pay me to watch Gn’R. Well you could obviously… it’s my job. Just about. Technically. I guess. But if you did - which you won’t obviously - I’d be duty bound to go on about what a fizzing pile of horseshit they are. Maybe it’s all connected.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 months

Did a land mine write this?

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@sxsw

2 months

The defense industry has historically been a proving ground for many of the systems we rely on today. These institutions are often leaders in emerging technologies, and we believe it’s better to understand how their approach will impact our lives.

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John Doran

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3 years

If I ever get over COVID, my 50s are going to be a non-stop parade of trepanation, tattoos, LSD, motorbikes, magical practice, live techno, weightlifting and salsa dancing. All the stuff I didn’t commit robustly enough to when I was younger. Bar the LSD.

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John Doran

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6 years

Alright! My Aphex Twin documentary is on the wireless in a few seconds... You can listen here:

BBC Radio 4 - The Cult of Aphex Twin

Music writer John Doran ventures into the strange world of Richard D James.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 years

Fucking hell. Just read it again. Started laughing. Had a second asthma attack. I don't even have asthma.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

"Do I have any views on what's wrong with music journalism today? Hmmm, let me see..." Thanks to the mighty @toddlburns for allowing me to hold forth for @JournalismMusic .

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 months

I’m not a ‘stick to your lane’ kind of guy, except when it comes to the media & current affairs. It needs to be intelligence tested & educationally subnormal halfwits like Madeley should have their remit legally ring fenced to the size of wagon wheel biscuits & Strictly.

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@SaulStaniforth

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Richard Madeley asks British Palestinian MP Layla Moran if she or her family knew about Hamas's attack before it happened #GMB

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John Doran

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1 year

I still can't quite believe how fucking astounding False Lankum is. An immediate rejoinder to anyone thinking there isn't music coming out rn delivering brutal blows to the guts, to the heart, to the brain. Bandcamp in 🧵

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

I'm just throwing this out there but I think if SONIC YOUTH reformed this year with the intention of recording a triple album and committed to an extensive world tour, it would, for my money, actually attenuate some of reality's current oppressive & ojectionable bullshit.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

Front page of the Svn. What a cunt.

Simon Boyle

@SimonBoyle87

3 years

First day of a two part interview with the finest songwriter of a generation Noel Gallagher - who remains as irreverent and irrepressible as ever on pretty much everything... #NoelGallagher more tomorrow on his new music and plans for the future.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

10 months

I relish these moments. The day’s work is done. The boy is tucked up in bed. Just some blissful transient time I can dedicate to my Taylor Swift records.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

Jon Anderson of Yes recalled the first time he met Vangelis on @theQuietus last year. (Full interview: )

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

The Quietus turns 12 today! @LukeTurnerEsq & I have worked hard to bring you an amazing new subscriber system to secure the future of the site. There are ace perks of bonus essays, a new podcast series and exclusive music. Please read and RT! Thanks!

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | We Are 12! Celebrate By Becoming A Subscriber & Get...

As tQ turns 12 we're launching a new subscriber system - read on to find out how you can help keep the site alive while also getting access to exclusive music, podcasts and editorial

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

Hyped that Grimes and Elon Musk have safely delivered the new Autechre EP.

Grimes and Elon Musk Welcome Baby

Congratulations! Elon tweeted that the newborn is named “X Æ A-12 Musk”

pitchfork.com

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

Kiss my fucking ballsack you cake-eating Worzel Gummidge cunt.

‘Doing a great job’: Johnson hails parents for efforts in lockdown

PM pens letter recognising ‘unique challenges’ faced by those looking after children during the pandemic

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

I'm hitting pause on repping for other ppl's mags for a sec to rep for my own. At best @theQuietus is unbeatable. Evidence: this astounding essay on Wu-Tang Clan, The Fall & William Blake - the visionary march through the hidden city. Read. Enjoy. RT.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

People ask me why I start every day with 20 minutes of sincere prayer, asking the great universal creator to crush the music industry even though it will ultimately lead to my own homelessness.

Travis Barker

@travisbarker

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And just like that @Interscope will never be the same @machinegunkelly #ticketstomydownfall

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John Doran

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3 years

I hung out with LCD Soundsystem in an Indian restaurant before a gig in Sheffield in 2005 and James Murphy spent the entire meal quoting Brass Eye sketches verbatim to me. Several other members of the group didn’t seem to know what was happening.

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What's the most unlikely activity that you have participated in with a celebrity? Not stood next to or was in the same room as. Actually did something with. I once played a Telly Addicts pub quiz machine with Sonya Madan from Echobelly. We won.

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John Doran

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4 years

Fatima's next job could be in cyber. (She just doesn't know it yet.)

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

I think when the inevitable reveal comes that this is a marketing stunt carried out at the behest of a mega-corporation who don't pay taxes, it should be legal for us to drag the CEO from his limo and kick him to death.

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A fourth monolith has been found — on the Isle of Wight

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John Doran

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9 months

I just checked and am sorry to report This Heat are still better than your band.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 months

"We mustn’t let such a beautiful thing be broken and cast aside." I wrote an op-ed piece for The Guardian about the existential threat facing music criticism after the recent P4K merger, downsizing of Bandcamp Daily, closure of Q & Gal Dem etc.

From Pitchfork to Q, music criticism is under attack. We must fight for the magic it can inspire |...

Yes, critics help us make sense of the millions of songs released every month – but the best writing transcends the music, says John Doran, editor of the Quietus

www.theguardian.com

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

BACK ONCE AGAIN WITH THE RENEGADE MINISTER/ D FOR DUCHY WITH THE ILL BEHAVIOUR.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

5 years

Morrissey looks like he's on his way to whack Big Pussy Malanga in Nuovo Vesuvio, Artie Bucco's restaurant.

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@bsgorrie

5 years

Morrissey has a Morrissey sticker on his car

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1 year

In 1986, the teenage band Napalm Death wrote the 1.316 second long song 'You Suffer' as a bit of a joke. Novelist Benjamin Myers reflects on how this song has come to represent the age of anxiety we live in.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

9 months

Exactly 12 years ago I went on holiday with my son for the first time, to Tenby; he was three months old. I wandered into a tiny, clustered, chaotic bookshop called Cofion and bought a George Orwell Penguin paperback for 50p. It dawned on me - very slowly admittedly… 1/2

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

Many happy returns to The Quietus which turns 13 today. @LukeTurnerEsq & I have devised some killer new perks for subscribers; so helping support the site has never been more enjoyable while never being less essential to our survival.

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@JahDuran

1 year

Thoughts and prayers with Sheffield.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

I’ve abandoned domestic comfort for the Wiltshire bayou.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

The mask on my face is aching. The facts seem to cut me like a knife.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

“There is no beginning and no end in music. Some people want it to end. But it goes on.” Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk remembered by Jude Rogers

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

I enjoyed writing this feature on Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love', which was published on the Guardian yesterday. For the record this is my all time number one, number one, with Tubeway Army's 'Are "Friends" Electric? a close second and 'Umbrella' third.

The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 4, Donna Summer – I Feel Love

Hypnotic synth, peerless vocals and visionary ambition make the 1977 genre-busting hit a turning point in pop and a truly timeless track

www.theguardian.com

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@JahDuran

4 months

GQ is a narc’s mag. Heartfelt commiseration to everyone who has lost a job/regular work at P4K due to this narrow-shouldered, fuck-witted, short-termist move by the bean counters.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 years

Finally.

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@JahDuran

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RSD sold out: Frampton Comes Alive [Scratch & Sniff 4xLP] Paul Young – No Parlez in Dub Paul Young – No Parlez 1/8 speed Abbey Road remaster Paul Young – No Parlexx [Jamie xx remixes] The Bill Incidental Music XII: Jim Carver Pissed Up At Sun Hill The Fred Dibnah Sample Pack EP

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

Can someone hack into @memorialdevice 's account and award them Alternative National Treasure status, pls & thx.

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@JahDuran

3 years

Are you ready to be heart/house broken?

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@JahDuran

2 years

A rare moment of calm canine contemplation.

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John Doran

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7 months

Massive thanks to the heroic @MaryAnneHobbs – sister in sound – for her very kind words and giving me the privilege of such a huge platform to talk seriously about art and writing. I am profoundly grateful for her continued support.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 months

Sure, going out and doing stuff is great but have you ever actually just sat in a chair and listened to a record?

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

Kif, I have signed a two book deal with White Rabbit. Inform the men. (With thanks to @leebrackstone @MWHamilton @WhiteRabbitBks & @orionbooks for their serene patience in the face of epic dithering.)

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John Doran

@JahDuran

4 years

My favourite film of this year is the beautiful short, John Was Trying To Contact Aliens. The subject, John Shepherd, has recorded the Quietus one of his lush interplanetary broadcasts and you can listen in to it here.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

It's here... The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2021 How many have you heard? What's number one? Are all of these real bands? Where are pisslgrave?! So many questions...

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John Doran

@JahDuran

5 months

Geordie Walker was one of the architects of the sound of the 80s, simultaneously an iconoclast & inspiration to heavy metal, post punk & goth. Here is a piece I wrote asking when Killing Joke will be given their fair dues as post punk innovators. RIP

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3 years

I'm always talking about game-changing albums. This one changed my life rather than music in general. Happy 35th birthday Psychocandy by Jesus And Mary Chain.

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6 years

Spent so long arguing with people on the internet about Killing Joke and The Cure this morning that I missed my appointment at Specsavers. And if that isn't a good snapshot of exactly where I'm at on turning 47 I don't know what is.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

3 months

Mohammad Syfkhan fled Syria after an ISIS assault on his family so brutal that most will struggle to comprehend it. Now his home is Ireland, he's played with @LankumDublin & is releasing one of this year's best LPs. I spoke to him for this feature.

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3 years

They’ll be holding frost fairs in Hades before I willingly listen to Van Morrison but this take down of his new LP by Petridis is hellaciously enjoyable.

Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

The veteran bluesman loudly wakes up the sheeple with this boring and paranoid double album, reminiscent of a dinner party with a bitter divorcee

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Fuck me. Look at this wretched pair of nimrods. What is up with all of these weed-addled, middle-aged tools shitting the bed and rolling round in it at the moment.

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3 years

Swifty gets it. (Nicked from Phil Thomas from the Mighty Fall FB page.)

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4 years

The Great British Fuck Off. Today, Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods tells us his secrets for baking cakes.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

7 months

Genuinely gutted to hear the news about Bandcamp Daily; it is a fantastic resource, full of amazing global primers & sh1t hot recommendations for ppl with open ears. Best wishes to laid off staff looking for new work. Hopefully new owners won’t cut it back any further.

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1 year

"Goth was so uncool that most goths would get annoyed when labelled a goths. So asserting revolutionary credentials is an uphill battle." The terse relationship truly original groups Killing Joke & Bauhaus have with the post punk canon #GothWeek

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@JahDuran

4 years

The most truthful T-shirt ever made! (Thanks to my friend @BabakGanjei )

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@JahDuran

5 years

Derek Jarman’s blue plaque at Butler’s Wharf, Shad Thames.

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3 months

Damn... Rest well to a true soul.

Future Days, by CAN

from the album Future Days

canofficial.bandcamp.com

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John Doran

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11 months

In April I said the Quietus was done for unless we got 350 new subscribers – and twice that amount of folk came to our aid. THANK YOU. We *literally* couldn't do this without you. The near 40% offer for full subscription ends at 11.59 GMT tonight.

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John Doran

@JahDuran

2 years

People have been calling for Luke & I to resign from editing the Quietus all week but I think photographs leaked to the press clearly reveal it was a work meeting. I would especially draw people's attention to the fact we're both wearing workplace-appropriate headgear.

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