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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · 1d

Chatted to claire rousay for this month's Wire cover. We spoke about sobriety, San Antonio, field recordings, atonement, William Basinski’s clothes, living in cities, the confessional mode, self sacrifice & much besides. Her new album a little death comes out end of Oct.

www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 2d

The Wire 501.

Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday.

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · 26d

end-of-summer shoe

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 26d

Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire's weekly radio show on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featuring tracks by Ornette Coleman Trio, Valentina Magaletti & YPY, Weston Olencki, feeo and many more.

www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Lucy Thraves presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

The 11 September edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Ornette Coleman Trio, Weston Olencki, feeo, Valentina Magaletti & YPY and many more

www.thewire.co.uk

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 27d

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Adventures In Sound And Music returns after its summer break, with @lucythraves.bsky.social playing music by Ornette Coleman Trio, Weston Olencki, feeo, Valentina Magaletti & YPY & many more.

Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Aug 29

Still find it surreal that I get to contribute to the life of this miraculous publication. To be soppy and grandiose about it (what else are milestones for?), it's changing my life, which is kind of what it does, if you let it.

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29

Next week, The Wire will publish its 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th issue, which feels like something worth celebrating.

By way of reflection, we've taken a look back through the archive at our previous milestones.

1) 50 Undersung Musicians (Issue 50, April 1988)

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Barberskum Med Duft’s Blues Fermentation feat DJ Chinstroke @jjstannard.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · Aug 25

the main thing that happened to music criticism in the last 25 years is it got defunded

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Ed Gillett @ehgillett.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is both correct, and not radical enough: we should ban 99% of all privately-owned cars from inner cities. Blue badge holders, emergency services, finite number of permits for commercial deliveries, buses, bikes, and that’s it. No able-bodied person in Zone 1 actually needs a Land Rover, sorry.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Jul 18

ooof

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · Jul 11

I hear rumours that 2035 is going to beat both of them!

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Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · Jul 3

Devastated at the news about JD Twitch. Keith has been a constant in our lives and all those who love music. Sending love to his family and Jonnie❤️ @optimo-espacio.bsky.social

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Fergal Kinney @fergalkinney.bsky.social · Jun 13

fantastic evisceration of a widely celebrated, posh gentleman farmer polemic by @lucythraves.bsky.social for Tribune, with perceptive reflections about the Right to Roam campaign

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 13

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

Solidarity of the Ruling Class

A new book by a former <i>Shooting Times</i> editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough,…

tribunemag.co.uk

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Jun 13

I reviewed a new book about land access by a writer purporting to be a neutral observer to that debate.

It turns out, that's a lie.

Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social · Jun 13

This devastating review of Patrick Galbraith’s Uncommon Ground by @lucythraves.bsky.social could burn the heather on a thousand grouse moors

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 13

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Jun 6

Some sonic soup for the soul

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Jun 6

At The Wire website, listen back to last night's episode of Adventures In Sound And Music, hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featuring music by DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess, Cécilia Angeles, Joy Guidry, Anika, Mark Stewart and more.

www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Lucy Thraves presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

The 5 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess, Cécilia Angeles, Joy Guidry, Anika, Mark Stewart, Larry Stabb...

www.thewire.co.uk

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by DJ Marcelle, Mark Stewart (pictured), Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders, B Abbas & R Abou-Rahme & more.

Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule

📷 Leon Chew

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · May 23

Help us remain 100% independent, 100% uncompromising, 100% committed to sharing and supporting the world's best music

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · May 23

An urgent message from The Wire magazine

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

An urgent message from The Wire magazine - The Wire

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · May 17

This 1990s anime’s ability to capture the mood of America 2025 is uncanny

A sad old man hunched over his drink in a bar. The subtitle reads “This era has lasted a century, and so I thought it would go on forever.”

The men at the bar listen as the old man continues, “but when you think about it, there’s no basis for that at all”

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · May 10

Desiring truth

Virginia Woolf, ‘Monday or Tuesday’

Monday or Tuesday
Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out! A mountain? Oh, perfect - the sun gold on its slopes. Down that falls. Ferns then, or white feathers, for ever and ever -
Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, for ever desiring - (a cry starts to the left, another to the right. Wheels strike divergently. Omnibuses conglomerate in conflict) - for ever desiring - (the clock asseverates with twelve distinct strokes that it is midday;' light sheds gold scales; children swarm) - for ever desiring truth. Red is the dome; coins hang on the trees; smoke trails from the chimneys; bark, shout, cry 'Iron for sale' - and truth?
Radiating to a point men's feet and women's feet, black or gold-encrusted - (This foggy weather - Sugar? No, thank you - The commonwealth of the future) - the firelight darting and making the room red, save for the black figures and their bright eyes, while outside a van discharges, Miss Thingummy drinks tea at her desk, and plate-glass preserves fur coats -
Flaunted, leaf-light, drifting at corners, blown across the wheels, silver-splashed, home or not home, gathered, scattered, squandered in separate scales, swept up, down, torn, sunk, assembled - and truth?
Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble. From ivory depths words rising shed their blackness, blossom and penetrate.
Fallen the book; in the flame, in the smoke, in the momentary sparks - or now voyaging, the marble square pendant, minarets beneath and the Indian seas, while space rushes blue and stars glint - truth? or now, content with closeness?
Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them.

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Barberskum Med Duft’s Blues Fermentation feat DJ Chinstroke @jjstannard.bsky.social · Apr 23

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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · Apr 22

How to find new music without an algorithm, featuring @hearingthingsco.bsky.social nygroove.nyc/enough-is-en...

Enough is enough: How to find new music without an algorithm

It's time we stopped ceding the discovery process to the bots

nygroove.nyc

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Mar 27

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new and recent releases by Goldie (pictured), Quade, Donna Candy, OHYUNG, aya, and many more.

Tune in from 9pm GMT: extra.resonance.fm/schedule

📷 by Gus Coral

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Mar 24

unbelievable stuff. looney tunes shit

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · Mar 24

I'll be talking to Toby Manning about his Marxist history of pop this Wednesday in Walthamstow.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social · Mar 24

Wednesday/Walthamstow
@jemgilbert.bsky.social & Toby Manning on Marxism and Pop

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mixing-pop...

MIXING POP WITH POLITICS - TOBY MANNING with JEREMY GILBERT

Spanning the early 50s to the present, Toby Manning's radical history is a joyful exploration of popular music’s role in our society.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Mar 7

Fanks Joe x

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Mar 5

Interviewed Infinity Knives for the issue of The Wire. Life is tough; smoking a cig (backwards) helps

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Feb 18

i feel like the only person who could possibly get close to making sense of sinkholes - aesthetically, narratively, even scientifically - is M John Harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘We’re just terrified’: People evacuate homes after sinkhole appears on Surrey high street

Water supply turned off in Godstone as 20-metre hole swallows up a garden

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · Feb 4

A beauty ❤️

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Feb 4

The Wire 493 is out now!

www.thewire.co.uk/issues/493

Featuring Masma Dream World, Louis Laurain, Caxtrinho, Able Noise, Lydia Lunch's Invisible Jukebox, Polonius, Macie Stewart, Chris Cundy, and much, much more.

📷 Cover by Courtney Sofiah Yates

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