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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 9d

For The Guardian I reviewed Sigur Ros, a show which was very lovely but too smooth around the edges for me - that was until they got Anna Lapwood on the Albert Hall's 9,999 pipe organ for a fuck-off blast of enormous noise at the end that very much hit the spot

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Sigur Rós and the London Contemporary Orchestra review – crashing waves of refined harmony

Perhaps the band that can best justify a mid-career gig with classical backing, the extra heft of the orchestra adds power to the Icelanders’ beautiful crescendos

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 12d

Currently prepping the next edition of my Radical Traditional column for The Quietus - keen for any and all tips on new music that focuses on both tradition and experimentation

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here are 10 of my favourite new experimental trad folk releases, compiled and reviewed for your pleasure in my latest Radical Traditional column over at @thequietus.com !

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases

thequietus.com

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Hester @hesterkw.bsky.social · 13d

Bookmarked this a while ago and only just got around to reading it. Surprisingly moved by morris dancing at the 2023 BRIT awards to Chaise Longue.

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 18

For @thequietus.com today, I wrote an essay about why we should stop scoffing about morris dancing, and instead view it as something radical, transgressive, and powerful enough to completely alter one's brain

In Defense of the Progressive Power of Morris Dancing

Cecil Sharp spent the Christmas of 1899 unwell. Recuperating in a cottage on the outskirts of Oxford, the mental fug of the lingering illness must have intensified the strangeness of what he saw throu...

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 14d

Whatever it is, I'm certain that leeches are the only cure

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 14d

I've just been told I've got pleurisy - unenjoyable experience, enjoyably medieval sounding disease

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 24d

Missed the news that the brilliant Širom are back - this is wonderful

For You, This Eve, the Wolves Will Be Enchantingly Forsaken

YouTube video by Širom - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 25d

This album is indeed very great

Alex Silver @halfvivid.bsky.social · 25d

This is an incredibly mature piece of art. I found it by happenstance and I'm very excited. There's been some music journalism about it (@spinal-bap.bsky.social, @callinamagician.bsky.social, @paddyclarke.bsky.social), but I think it merits more.

wormery.bandcamp.com/album/pantilde

Pantilde, by The Worm

12 track album

wormery.bandcamp.com

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Stuart Benjamin Pulls It Off. @stuartbenjamin.bsky.social · Sep 9

As braindead nationalist wankotrons deface one of our Wiltshire white horses I'm reminded again of Mr Clarke's essay on the subversive nature of our folk traditions which entirely pass by the above mentioned wankotrons.

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 18

For @thequietus.com today, I wrote an essay about why we should stop scoffing about morris dancing, and instead view it as something radical, transgressive, and powerful enough to completely alter one's brain

In Defense of the Progressive Power of Morris Dancing

Cecil Sharp spent the Christmas of 1899 unwell. Recuperating in a cottage on the outskirts of Oxford, the mental fug of the lingering illness must have intensified the strangeness of what he saw throu...

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Sep 5

This week marks an entire year since the publication of my book Bedsit Land, something I still can't quite believe happened. I still get an incredible thrill seeing it in the wild, and on my own bookshelf too.

HB 2 my baby – buy one perhaps?

Bedsit Land by Patrick Clarke | Waterstones

Buy Bedsit Land by Patrick Clarke from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Marek Walker @ohmmkay.bsky.social · Sep 4

What is it ?

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please help tQ - and by extension me - survive!

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Sep 4

The Quietus is 17 today! Can you help us celebrate & survive through 2025 by becoming a subscriber? We've also boosted our top Subscriber Plus tier with hours of brand-new playlists

buff.ly/EEPwsid

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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · Sep 4

Missed this in August - I always love a Paddy Clarke @thequietus.com folk column. I always find things I've never heard before. Recommended! thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Sep 2

This makes perfect sense

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Captain Bionic @captainbionic.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Conservatives don’t actually like English culture. They don’t care about it.” absolutely nails it

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 18

For @thequietus.com today, I wrote an essay about why we should stop scoffing about morris dancing, and instead view it as something radical, transgressive, and powerful enough to completely alter one's brain

In Defense of the Progressive Power of Morris Dancing

Cecil Sharp spent the Christmas of 1899 unwell. Recuperating in a cottage on the outskirts of Oxford, the mental fug of the lingering illness must have intensified the strangeness of what he saw throu...

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Sep 2

Still thinking about Richard Dawson's cover of Michael Hurley's Wildgeeses at Supersonic this weekend

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Sep 1

Also I am open to commissions

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks so much!

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes, this is about morris dancing….but what a great essay! It includes the connections to early C20 music and to the suffragettes; explores the role of women; the gendered dynamics; & the complexities of navigating ‘Englishness’ whilst remaining progressive.

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 18

For @thequietus.com today, I wrote an essay about why we should stop scoffing about morris dancing, and instead view it as something radical, transgressive, and powerful enough to completely alter one's brain

In Defense of the Progressive Power of Morris Dancing

Cecil Sharp spent the Christmas of 1899 unwell. Recuperating in a cottage on the outskirts of Oxford, the mental fug of the lingering illness must have intensified the strangeness of what he saw throu...

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks so much!

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited to represent as 'The Quietus DJ' at this year's Supersonic where I will be soundtracking a Saturday afternoon at the marketplace

Supersonic Festival @supersonicfest.bsky.social · Aug 21

‼️SUPERSONIC 2025 TIMETABLE IS HERE‼️

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · Aug 20

"a record that is a celebration of creativity itself, how delving into the past allows us to prod and probe at the nooks and crannies of the present"

Honoured to be included in @paddyclarke.bsky.social's summer edition of Radical Traditional for @thequietus.com.

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm supposed to do some DJ'ing in the marketplace at Supersonic Festival next weekend but after two weeks of writing about nothing but morris dancing and slowly losing my mind I might just whack on the entirety of Morris On instead

Cuckoo's Nest

YouTube video by Morris On Band - Topic

www.youtube.com

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is always the real deal.

Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here are 10 of my favourite new experimental trad folk releases, compiled and reviewed for your pleasure in my latest Radical Traditional column over at @thequietus.com !

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases

thequietus.com

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Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · Aug 19

Cluness gets it

Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social · Aug 19

The selections in this feature are fkn LEGIT. And not a shitty troubadour trying to ape Fleet Foxes or Bob Dylan in sight.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Aug 19

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases that take in everything from Irish fairy forts to Japanese rivers, strange parallel worlds and stark protest songs

Folk Music for Summer

buff.ly/PQAlEHz

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · Aug 19

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases that take in everything from Irish fairy forts to Japanese rivers, strange parallel worlds and stark protest songs

Folk Music for Summer

buff.ly/PQAlEHz

Jennifer Reid - the Ballad of the Gatekeeper album cover.

Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight album cover. Illustration of a horse with a person's arms wrapped around its head in an embrace. The hands also hold a rose.

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