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Luke Turner

8 days

A paperback publication day selfie with Men At War! I suppose this is the end of four years of research, writing, editing on this project, which is always an odd feeling. I hope I have done right by the memories of all the people I wrote about who gave so much in the war years

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

I was born 41 years ago today. It didn’t go terribly well and if it hadn’t been for the NHS both me and my mum would have died. This is one of a manifesto of reasons I’m out leafleting for @UKLabour & for @faizashaheen to unseat architect of misery Ian Duncan Smith #VoteLabour

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Luke Turner

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4 years

How a mediocre record by a toff, an investment banker, a real estate magnate and a socialite property developer epitomises the co-opting of underground electronic music by a wealthy elite: a superb essay by @ehgillett on @theQuietus today

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Luke Turner

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6 years

The Arctic Monkeys seem to think they look like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds here, rather than a bunch of divorced Basingstoke solicitors who meet once a month for poker and cheap cigars.

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Luke Turner

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2 years

I’ve been wanting to go to the Romney Marsh sound mirrors for years - reinforced concrete for advanced military devices that were rendered obsolete almost as soon as they were built, as beautiful in the landscape as ancient standing stones

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

I spent three years at Hotcourses working in the same office as Jeremy Hunt. The only "fizz and excitement" involved was drinking ourselves into a stupor at the end of the working day to try and erase his rictus grin and patronising bullshit from our lives.

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@SkyNews

4 years

"There's only so long you can work remotely before you lose the fizz and excitement that you get in a good workplace." Former health secretary @Jeremy_Hunt says he expects people will want to get back into the workplace soon. Follow live: #KayBurley

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Luke Turner

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6 years

Mark E Smith didn’t rule The Fall, he wasn’t the dictator of cliché. He saw it as an entity outside of himself, of which he was the curator, the caretaker, the hip priest. RIP, one of the greatest poets & artists this nation has ever known.

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Luke Turner

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4 years

Andrew Weatherall was one of the funniest, smartest, wisest fuckers I have ever interviewed or met. His influence on the good and righteous music can't be underestimated. Absolutely devastated by this news. RIP.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

Dear me this is depressing - PlayStation have changed the signs of the tube at Oxford Circus to mark the launch of something or or the. This awful corporatisation of public space and signage is a slippery slope.

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Luke Turner

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2 years

@joemuggs @mosseri all I want is to look at little square pictures of things my friends and acquaintances have been doing, is that really too much to ask!

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

1 month

People like to mock Adrian Chiles but I think he's a magnificent, very direct, soulful writer, especially about masculinity. This, about the death of his old man, is tender, simple, moving:

I’ve spent a lifetime dreading the loss of a parent. And now it’s finally happened | Adrian Chiles

I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass, asks Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Thank you to the Evening Standard, a newspaper I have always loathed, for publishing a review of Out Of The Woods laden with the sort of prejudice that merely proves to me why I had to write it

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Luke Turner

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1 year

@BenMyers1 @stevie_chick @MrJonnieB he's very Camden isn't he? Late 90s into early 00s, lager at the Hawley Arms with Winehouse and the bloke from Mighty Boosh, everyone on so much chisel they feel that it is acceptable to leave the house dressed as pirates.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

The look on Kenneth Williams face when he says “I’ve personified what you might call the butch element in light entertainment for some time now” is magical. He was my hero as a kid, I was obsessed w his roles in Carry On films, Just A Minute & Willow The Wisp (via @eleanormorgan )

Kenneth Williams Archive

@KENNETHWILLlAMS

5 years

In 1971, during the making of #CarryOn Henry, Ken was asked what a camp performance was. Here he is, on top form, giving his reply.😁 Click⬇️

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Luke Turner

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4 years

“I tell you what Luke, I don’t like you, I don’t like your books, I don’t like your opinions” if it wasn’t for right wing people destroying printed material having a horrific pedigree, this would be most amusing

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@TalkTV

4 years

Mike Graham starts the show by ripping up his copy of The Guardian after columnist Luke Turner said "toxic nostalgia" had twisted the words of Vera Lynn's songs, after the singer had died. Watch the show ► @iromg

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

The @petshopboys are up on the tree

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

If you’re enjoying The Cure do check out this wonderful old Robert Smith diary of his life in Crawley with mum and dad and Mary; takeaways, night walks and “always an undercurrent of insanity”. Thanks to @simon_price01 for sharing a while ago

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Very excited to announce details of my next book: MEN AT WAR will use literature and life stories to undermine nationalist myths by exploring the diversity of British masculinity and fluid sexual identity during the Second World War

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Absolutely bemused/ disappointed that BBC Radio 3 is cutting Late Junction down to one night a week. A crucial programme for the dissemination of unusual, progressive, independent, challenging music & vital for so many artists we love at eg @theQuietus

Autumn scheduling plans on BBC Radio 3

Today we’ve put out to tender a number of programmes for Radio 3 beginning in the Autumn. The eagle-eyed among you will see that these imply some changes to the overall shape of the schedule.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Luke Turner

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5 years

Wrote about why cutting down Late Junction is a disaster for the experimental music community and the wider musical ecosystem for the @guardian . It's been great to see so many people rallying to #savelatejunction today, let's make a fucking racket!

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Camden Masculinity of the first decade of this century really was bloody awful - aesthetically, morally, creatively.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

Shut up you fucked our country.

David Cameron

@David_Cameron

6 years

Last night I enjoyed a real father and son moment: first, calmly explaining that England and penalty shootouts don't go together, and then the sheer joy, delight and exhilaration at an @England victory! Well done #ThreeLions Onwards...!

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Luke Turner

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3 years

I picked 20 essential Enya tracks for the Guardian, showcasing my true & non-ironic love for the Celticfuturist avant-pop artist who really should be considered as equal to the likes of the Cocteau Twins

Enya’s greatest songs – ranked!

This month, the Irish singer turned 60 – and her popularity belies how radical her Celtic futurism really is

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

7 months

I can’t think of a platform that has been so revolutionary for independent music in recent years as bandcamp & having quality editorial around a direct sales point was a no-brainer. Or at least was until tech bros with no brains bought the thing. Terrible news.

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Luke Turner

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4 years

Strange emotions on this news. The music that Genesis was a part of changed my life, yet when people with a legacy of abuse pass on it is impossible not to think of that too, no matter how incredible their artistic work. And nor should it be ignored.

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@theQuietus

4 years

Genesis P-Orridge, member of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, has died after a long illness, it was announced today

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Luke Turner

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8 years

Thanks, Baby Boomers, for giving us one final and almighty shafting before you die

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Lads, I'm not entirely sure that disrupting public transport is a brilliant tactic when it comes to climate change activism.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

Same

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

This photograph, of a Lightning crash at Hatfield aerodrome in 1962, has always been a favourite and keeps floating into my head. If anyone asked, 'sum up England in one image', this is what I'd choose.

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Luke Turner

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4 years

I loved that episode as a kid and I think from it learned more about the idiocy of English bigotry - a country hit on the head by a moose and gone mad - than it was punching down. You laughed at the Major, a pathetic and sherry-addled relic of a character, not with him

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Some good news from Manchester on the saving of these venues, apparently involving @Tim_Burgess who deserves some sort of big gong for his services to music during the Covid crisis.

Manchester News MEN

@MENnewsdesk

4 years

Deaf Institute and Gorilla saved from closure as buyer snaps up both venues

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Mortimer & Whitehouse's @MWGoneFishing is some of the best telly I've ever seen & this is a cracking episode, from Bob's "car meat" to camping stove misadventure and a moving chat about death. Always hilarious and utterly poignant, so so good

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

The worst musical idea in human history has now become flesh

NME

@NME

6 years

Watch Miles Kane and Matt Bellamy bring their Beatles tribute band to SXSW Festival

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

What is it about the baby boomer generation quacking on that “we fought in the war”. No you didn’t! Your parents did and you’ve just sat around getting comfy with all the houses and the NHS now keeping you alive you fuck!

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

5 years

“We fought in the Second World War. We liberated France, we liberated Belgium. We beat the Germans. And what we got now? Trying to tell us what we can and can’t do." Former miner Danny Gillespie, who voted Leave, says the situation is "absolutely ridiculous" #newsnight

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Luke Turner

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4 years

If the government says it can pay up to £2500 a month towards wages (more than anyone has ever paid me per month) surely they could do a lower universal basic income that would be a lot smoother, fairer, and in the end more useful in terms of keeping the economy evenly oiled?

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Tomorrow evening tune into Countryfile from 7pm to watch me realise a lifelong dream by appearing on the programme. Oh yes!! It’s a special focus on Epping Forest and also features a segment on the hard work of these lovely beasts in maintaining the woodland pasture landscape

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Out Of The Woods is OUT TODAY! When ages ago I was asked why I was writing it, I realised it was a message to my 14-year-old self to tell him that everything could be OK. Here it now sits, alongside some of the books that brought it into being.

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Luke Turner

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7 years

Death Star closing in on the cunt who fucked this country for the past few years

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

18 days

footage from Coachella makes it look like the most abject event on the planet and I am #blessed that I will go to my grave without ever spending days in a desert surrounded by awful people with restricted booze opportunities watching the Nuremberg Rally of corporate pop excess.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Mark Hollis RIP. The massed recorders that start at 5.34 in Time It's Time will always be one of the most joyous sounds ever recorded

Talk Talk - TIME IT'S TIME - 1986

Album : The colour of springPiste : 8Année : 03.1986Nobody knows how longRustling leaves unrhymeLullaby breeze unsungBabel of dreams unwind in memoryAs bad a...

www.youtube.com

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

3 months

Absolutely gutted to hear that Neil Kulkarni has died. One of the best writers I’ve ever had the privilege to edit & a star of @theQuietus . I don’t think many came close to writing about British culture, and what it tells us about this country, as well as he did. RIP.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 months

Great interview with Peter Capaldi here - for acting, see also music, literature etc

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

2 years

@hugorifkind great idea – Derek Jarman had a bed inside a greenhouse in the warehouse he lived in on the South Bank

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

Dear me this is bleak. A transphobic group within Labour have raised over £8k in just one day in a campaign to keep trans women off shortlists. Surely raising money for a campaign like this ought be outlawed, as it would for racial discrimination

Eve Livingston

@eve_rebecca

6 years

Labour Party transphobes are crowdfunding to exclude trans women from all-women shortlists. Cruel & despicable at any time; doubly so to raise 1000s of pounds while refuges are cut & women hit hardest by austerity. There’s a ‘report’ button on the page:

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

I interviewed Jason & Andrew @sleafordmods about sexuality, porn, men, bleak humour, the importance of criticism, giving people a second chance, the English grotesque & lockdown thirst trap Baking Daddy. Oh yes, and their amazing new LP Spare Ribs:

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

what about blowjobs and gardening? 🤔

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@maryepworth

4 years

Announcement: White Masculinity is definitely having a normal one.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

7 years

Dear music business/press/radio... please stop enabling Morrissey & his racist views just because you once loved The Smiths.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

1 month

bloody hell did he?!!

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

A lot of the thoughts around Mark Hollis' passing seems to focus on his retiring from music, and supposedly becoming 'an enigma'. With Talk Talk he did make three of the greatest albums ever recorded. Why not just stop? Quite fair enough. I wish more auld fuckers would.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

8 months

Horrendous time, culturally. As well as being led by all sorts of appalling characters like Brand, it obscured a lot of amazing, more thoughtful art & music. Setting up The Quietus and the direction it took was a reaction to a lot of that fake pirate Camden lols shite.

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@piercepenniless

8 months

Like many others, I recall the "ironic", nihilist, hyper-sadist mass culture of the mid-late '00s with zero affection. But it is worth saying that plenty of people also saw that culture for what it was at the time, too.

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5 years

When the front door opens and you realise the Grindrman’s profile picture was at least a decade old

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@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

At the end of Suede's gig last night Brett Anderson got a load of kids onstage and in them I saw myself as I was 25 years ago and I thought of how this band changed my life, and I cried, and today I wrote about it here:

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Imagine dying/killing your granny because you went and got sweaty at a Stereophonics gig #properindieforthelads

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

7 years

I've written a very personal piece about male child abuse & how perhaps in his downfall Milo might have some use:

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

Oh blimey here's the amazing cover for Out of the Woods; I am so chuffed at how it captures unusual energies and curious wronging but also the possibility of unexpected transcendence among the trees... Pre-order here:

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

It's easy to be cynical about stuff like #ClapForCarers but in our area there were fireworks going off, hollering, cars honking and it was all quite moving. Here's hoping everyone clapping doesn't vote for the bastards who make the carers lives so difficult at the next election.

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2 months

Oh ffs the absolute worst floater in British politics has once more come back up round the u-bend with his ‘bloke in the music business who can’t cope with being bald so has glued a stupid hat to his noggin’ energy

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

The free pass accorded to Genesis Porridge in woke electronic art/music world despite the coercion, physical & mental abuse detailed in Cosey Fanni Tutti's memoir has been infuriating, good on @lottiebrazier & @guardianmusic for this excellent piece

Genesis P-Orridge: fantastic transgressor or sadistic aggressor?

The Throbbing Gristle provocateur is being hymned as she nears the end of her life. But accusations of abuse, all denied, complicate her legacy

www.theguardian.com

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@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

How apt to reference a Blitz-era song when your ineptitude has killed more British civilians than the Luftwaffe

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@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

I find Doggerland endlessly fascinating

Study finds indications of life on Doggerland after devastating tsunamis

Scientists suggest parts of expanse that once connected Britain to mainland Europe survived waves and had settlements

www.theguardian.com

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@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

I love this photo from 1940, when men were men etc etc and the Garden Centre Nationalists knew what was what none of this funny business etc etc

Oliver Harris

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3 years

British Soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shornemead Fort, England in 1940

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

Sarah Waters on the World Service talking about how she signed on and wrote Tipping The Velvet. I wonder how many voices in literature, music & art we’ve lost because that’s no longer possible.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

The train announcer on the 13:30 to Stowmarket and after Norwich just said "I checked my watch and can confirm it is gin o'clock!". I am therefore now firmly convinced that we as a nation deserve the coming disaster.

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@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Had a chat with Werner Herzog about Germany, walking, forests, Krautrock (sort of) and far-out mathematics, interview on The Quietus soon

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@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

As a kid I used to run home from church to watch @BBCCountryfile so to spend part of today being filmed talking about Epping Forest for a forthcoming episode was something of a dream fulfilled

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4 years

Delighted to be with @BBCCountryfile who are filming in #EppingForest today - programme to be broadcast 21 June. @LukeTurnerEsq

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

First photo emerges of Scottish indie supergroup

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@LukeTurnerEsq

8 years

I actually tried Suede's brown rice diet, not realising that it really just meant "hard drugs and smoking" #indieamnesty

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3 years

Off for a Valentine’s Day walk with my belovèd

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

2 years

...and finally, two years after I began, the first draft of my book on British masculinity and the Second World War is done. Still much to do – as someone once said, "this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"

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@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Dear @bbcweather pls stop reporting these bizarre weather events with excitable exclamation marks and flickering sun gifs that give the feeling that this is wonderful news, rather than fucking terrifying.

BBC Weather

@bbcweather

5 years

A new February record has been set for the UK, with 20.3C being recorded at Trawsgoed, Ceredigion just now. It's also the first time we've seen over 20C in winter!

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

The roof garden of Warsaw University’s library is my new favourite place

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

7 years

I wrote about the troubling decline of actual criticism in music criticism for the good people of @CrackMagazine

When did music journalism stop wielding the axe?

In a destabilised music industry, negative criticism is out. But writers must resist the suppression of honest reviews, argues The Quietus's Luke Turner

crackmagazine.net

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@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Presumably the Don’t Mention The War Fawlty Towers has been removed due to the Major’s “cricket scene” rather than anything else... I always thought that episode was a sharp & effective comment on British WWII mythologising (and thus very pertinent today) than rude about Germans

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8 months

A lovely interview with Eddie Izzard which is unsurprisingly attracting swarms of bigotry. She was so important to me as a kid as one of the very few queer-or-who-knows people in the mainstream (+ for that impression of the non-electric hoover #hoddudda )

Eddie Izzard: 'I'm just trying to create a space for myself'

The actor and comic on making her female pronouns permanent, shouting down abuse, enduring a marathon a day – and running for Labour

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

The only people who find Christmas music tolerable have never worked in retail.

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6 months

My local park cafe does tea for £1, which means it is always busy and all sorts of different people hang out there, from kids to pensioners. Institutions like the BL, museums etc ought to offer one quid teas as part of being accessible to all. We need a #onequidtea campaign!

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6 months

the British Library cafe is so aware of what a scam their prices are that even the cakes are now laughing at us

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5 years

A box I sat looking at for ages, afraid to open. Out Of The Woods was so hard to write & now I have no secrets left, but I am very proud of it & these first finished copies look amazing, I am well chuffed. First event 18-01 with Olivia Laing @LRBbookshop

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3 years

I've written about growing up LGBT+ during the AIDS crisis, the quiet anger of Russell T Davies' drama It's A Sin, and why its soap opera stylings are what make it such a powerful exploration of a genocide by neglect under Tory rule

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3 years

I should say that my firm belief is that older artists can make music as radical & potent as the young. The music biz’ fetishisation of youth is dull. Many of my all-time favourite artists, eg Pulp & greatest pop group in history Pet Shop Boys, only really got going in their 30s

Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

Interesting that this year my records of the year list has an album by someone in their 80s but nothing by anyone under 30. Poptimism and the algorithmic era has ruined the youth!

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3 years

Today is @theQuietus birthday! 13 long years since @JahDuran & I set forth with our rickety & precarious independent publication. We're marking the Lynx fug of teenagerhood by increasing the perks for our subscribers, full info here –

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5 years

Over the past few days @juderogers @miracalix @joemuggs & myself have collected signatures for an open letter to @BBCRadio3 protesting their cuts. Over 500 signed up, and it's a flippin bonkers list, published now at the @guardian

Radio 3 cuts threaten musical ecosystem | Letter

Letter: More than 500 signatories from across the arts – including Shirley Collins, Jarvis Cocker, Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway, Peaches, Shabaka Hutchings, Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy, Brian Eno and...

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Just watched the third It’s A Sin, and can only manage one at once. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so sad and so quietly angry. What makes it is the slight soap opera nature, the simplicity of the plot. It’s right that it’s so accessible, to show what society did.

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4 years

Epping Forest in the autumn you are ridiculous 🍂❤️

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6 years

Mercury Music prize shortlist announced!

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5 years

Tory austerity has caused 130,000 preventable deaths, artists are supposed to say provocative things. Piss off, basically

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

Just renewed the web domain for @theQuietus for another nine years. I remember the first nine year renewal way back in 2010 and thinking 'lol as if we'll get that far' AND WE DID (hanging on by the skin of our teeth pls do donate here if you can

The Quietus | Features | Please Support The Quietus

With advertising in a state of rapid decline, we'd like a moment of your time and, if possible, your support to keep The Quietus moving forward

thequietus.com

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

I suspect I am not alone in this, but I am finding it nigh-on impossible to consume cultural things at the moment, beyond Viz's letters & tips, Foyle's War, Time Team & pop music by gay men made during the 1980s. How does one read? I have nearly forgotten!

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@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

Genesis P-Orridge said that their life, and their body, was inseparable from their art: therefore when remembering them it's imperative we also reflect on the abuses committed during their life. My reflections on this & the limits of 'cancel culture' here

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4 years

This "let them eat Nando's" save-the-nation policy from Rishi Sunak is basically just Tastecard or Googling voucher codes isn't it?

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@LukeTurnerEsq

1 year

My proofs of Men At War finally arrived at the weekend, I had one last read through, made corrections, closed the 400k word Scrivener file of notes, drafts, abandoned chapters, and that’s it. Now the limbo. Thank you @jennyjennylord @natgalustian for guiding it to this point.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

8 months

Today is @theQuietus 15th birthday and I remain amazed that we are still here. But, as @JahDuran writes rather beautifully here, we're only in it because the music we encounter continues to inspire and demand us to share it (1/3)

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5 months

RIP Pontins Camber Sands. A place of odd significance for me: dad preached there at Christian do Easter People, then in 2004 ATP changed my life – first time seeing @ThrobbingGrstle & where @JahDuran & I properly became mates. No Pontins, no @theQuietus

Pontins closes Prestatyn and Camber Sands holiday parks

The company says the Prestatyn site will close straight away, and apologises to customers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

If dealing with the climate crisis is all about convincing people, and all political movements have to be about convincing people, whoppers like this do not fucking help.

Congolesa Rice

@judeinlondon

5 years

Nothing good can come from a video that starts with a white man with dreadlocks doing interpretive dance to a drumbeat

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

3 years

I don’t know about you lot but I’ve found this week the absolute worst of the Covid Year. Just the unrelenting gloom of it, the early sundown, online the pitiful mither of culture wars and political ineptitude, and my complete inability to focus on research or written endeavour

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 @SpotifyUK

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

2 years

I am so chuffed with the cover for my book and hope you all like it too. Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939 - 1945, published by @wnbooks in April 2023 pre-order:

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@LukeTurnerEsq

6 years

The hot weather revealing London's (largely hideous) tattoos is proof that those of us without them will soon appear as exotic & strange as the first Elizabethan to wear a ruff.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

5 years

When I lived in Norwich I was a total mess w my sexuality & it led me to some awful abusive men and a time of terrible mental health. It meant a lot to come back 20 years later and read from Out of the Woods in front of such a lovely audience & feel so proud of being who I am 🏳️‍🌈

Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈

@PaulBurston

5 years

Great @polarisalon at @NorwichPride last night. Thanks to @SophiaBlackwell @VC_Lancaster and @LukeTurnerEsq - and to @josephballard for taking such good care of us.

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

2 years

. @20thcenturymarc went to Glastonbury and hated everyone, but not as much as he hated himself. This is great on how getting older is often the root cause of cultural snobbery & misanthropy:

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

2 years

I am obviously not the first old new dad involved with @theQuietus to say this but the impact sunn O)))) have on a screaming baby is remarkable. Stick on 00 Void at a decent whack and contemplative silence follows the wail. Surely a merch opportunity here for @IdeologicOrgan ?

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Luke Turner

@LukeTurnerEsq

4 years

oh this Pet Shop Boys interview is wonderful: on current pop’s love of authenticity & all the feels: ‘“authenticity is a style,” notes Tennant, “and it’s always the same style”), its lyrical penchant for what they waspishly term “narcissistic misery”.’

Pet Shop Boys: 'The acoustic guitar should be banned'

As pop’s great satirists reveal their romantic side on their new album, they talk about the misery of modern music, rock feuds and the joy of lunchtime clubbing

www.theguardian.com

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