@paddyclarke.bsky.social
Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // cult classic, not best seller
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialHadn't heard this before, really ace!
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialThought so, ta
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialWas the first Klaxons album good actually or am I having an episode
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialAI has made Google so shit. I'm trying to find the source of some trad lyrics about a Yorkshire farmer being forced to work in a factory and all it's asking me is whether I "would like to vent" about my experience of being a Yorkshire farmer forced to work in a factory.
@thequietus.comReposted by @paddyclarke.bsky.social👇
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialIf I wasn’t £600 in the hole waiting for a magazine to pay me / had paid for checked baggage all my problems would be solved
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialMy new favourite record shop in the world is Materia Prima in Porto. Their genre dividers alone are superb.
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialfuck me, that cover
@thequietus.comReposted by @paddyclarke.bsky.socialPatrick Clarke reports from Sweden’s Supertraditional Festival, where bridges are being built across Europe’s experimental folk scenes. Plus, 10 crucial new records...
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialReposted by @paddyclarke.bsky.socialNEW @thequietus.com FOLK COLUMN
This edition of my seasonal guide to experimental folk features a report from Supertraditional Fest in the batshit environs of Skansen exploring international weirdo trad solidarity.
Plus reviews of 10 excellent new records including Spanish electroclash bagpipes
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialIn case it's ur kinda thing, I've got a longread with Ezra Collective for the cover of the new DIY Mag, which is now online here:
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialGoing through a big dj. flugvél og geimskip phase rn
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialHe filmed himself getting arrested saying "I was expecting this" so I think it's absolutely the latter
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialThanks Paul!
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialThat’s right I am fascinating
@luketurner.bsky.socialReposted by @paddyclarke.bsky.socialMore great writing on current movements in folk by @paddyclarke.bsky.social, this time from the Supertraditional Festival in Stockholm's Skansen museum (one of my favourite places in the world) on the eve of the recent Swedish elections
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialNEW @thequietus.com FOLK COLUMN
This edition of my seasonal guide to experimental folk features a report from Supertraditional Fest in the batshit environs of Skansen exploring international weirdo trad solidarity.
Plus reviews of 10 excellent new records including Spanish electroclash bagpipes
@paddyclarke.bsky.social'Liminal' is the only word that really means what I'm trying to say in a forthcoming piece, but 'liminal' has also been ruined by the #hauntology art school crew. What to do?
@luketurner.bsky.socialReposted by @paddyclarke.bsky.socialThanks to @davidmckenna.bsky.social & @paddyclarke.bsky.social for turning me on to this incredible group & the scene around them that’s taking folk to new spaces - here’s Paddy’s report from New Trad Fest in the Loire Valley…
@paddyclarke.bsky.socialI've been known to indulge in one of his 'breakfast beers', which he assures me is a commonly done thing "among the Germans"
