Derek Walmsley

Released this very day: oliviatremorcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/the-sa...

The smallest railway in London wants a new driver. hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...

Sensational www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/alpt...

If ever you wanted evidence of how white Hollywood is, check out these photos, and then imagine how they are folded to make the magazine cover - only the left third will be on the front

Guardian style used to be that anymore is not written like that any more. But it's not the case anymore

Primer by @derekwalmsley.bsky.social. Illustration by Savage Pencil.

Inside The Wire 512: Aphex Twin Primer Richard D James is the mischievous wizard behind the era's most thrilling electronic music, from ambient experiments to drill 'n' bass and off yer face acid, in a journey spanning Cornish bedrooms, global festival stages and MTV www.thewire.co.uk/issues/512

PSA: quite busy with this and that and the other thing at the moment, so if you don't hear from me, try again.

Watching a rock star doc tonight which genuinely sounds scripted by AI. Some great contributors but all this “the international pop icon disappeared from the public view and was rumoured to be a recluse… but went on to influence a brand new generation of global singer songwriters”

Really sad to hear about the death of of Sway. He sounded like no-one else in the mid-2000s around the time that grime was popping off, including his verse here www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGRx...

GUYS IT’S SOLD OUT

Coyote vs Acme at the flicks for the second time today

Fascinating piece by Drew Daniel this.

Reviewers: make that first line count (props to AH for this gem) theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/t...

The miracle that is radiophrenia.scot is now online @radiophrenia.bsky.social

@rickburin.bsky.social there might be problems in this world, but Joe Root has hit a 50.

Do you usually buy The Wire from your local TG Jones store? Is it one of the stores that is closing down? You can buy single issues of the magazine from our online shop, or you can take out a subscription, and get free membership to our complete online library. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

BBC News leads, rightly, with the drought. The tone is serious, the content detailed. But no mention of man-made climate change let alone climate emergency (have to wait for explainer afterwards). No mention of 20% of clean water supply lost by disastrous privatised companies.

At present Wordcounter seems to suffer from an approximately 13 second delay from when you paste your text in to when it finally gives you the total, which should be, like, banned by the Geneva Convention or something

Love these. Looking through old hi-fi ads is a really powerful experience – a vision of the future what was

AIWA HS-JS415 (1994)

Walkman, 1980

Gig photographers: stop taking pics in black and white! It's not 1959.

I also found this absolutely shocking. The theory that the Earth is flat is becoming a growing fault line in online bantz. But….

This terrific piece is not part of the genre of Beatles interviews

As a freelancer, if there's one phrase that makes me twitch like Herbert Lom in the Pink Panther films, it's "Raise a Purchase Order".

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It's being reported that Julio Le Parc has died. I met Le Parc in Paris (for this @friezeofficial.bsky.social feature www.frieze.com/article/peri...) nearly thirteen years ago and liked him a lot. There was something impish and irrepressible about him even then, at 84 years old.

Richard Dawson: the complete reverb tapes.

joyous invisible jukebox in this month's wire with richard 'hows yr reverb' dawson. what a top human.

Plus I visited the Archipel festival in Geneva, where Antoine Läng did a radio thing on the role of journalism in music with Hanne Wagner, Wioleta Zochowska + me. They both had great things to say! You might find their work at positionen.berlin, seismograf.org etc www.mixcloud.com/FestivalArch...

Some very cool stuff in the brand new Wire, including a great window onto the weirdo music scene over on Vancouver Island in Emily Pothast’s EarthBall feature, and I reviewed this and that including an amazing effectively new Margareth Kammerer album

Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026) The great saxophonist has died aged 95. We have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart Nicholson’s essay on 1956's Saxophone Colossus. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

Rollins was giving great interviews even fairly recently www.jazztimes.com/features/int...

So sad to hear of the death of Sonny Rollins. Way back in the day I bought any live jazz disc that had Village Vanguard or Birdland on it. This one was nothing I'd ever heard before, the saxophone telling stories worth entire novels or films www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5p...

Going to spend the afternoon listening to versions of "Mirrors" by Joe Chambers

Bastion of indie cultural writing tQ is searching for more subscribers to help it keep going. Bung em some love.

Little shoutout to Tony Rettman’s avant rock column. Tony writes about a hoard of scuzzy, scummy and generally kick ass rock, most of which I don’t know, which is always worth its weight in gold

The brand new Wire is out! A tonne of good stuff as ever, amid which, I wrote about sound system culture finding new venues in London, and two new Keith Jarrett films

Whiplash (2014).

I'd quite forgotten about that Wailing Souls song. Remarkable to have two great reggae songs titled and themed so similarly.