Fergal Kinney interviews Emma Warren about her excellent new history of how youth clubs galvanised UK and Northern Irish culture, fashion and sounds

Felinheli Youth Club activities. Photo: Geoff Charles CC BY-SA 4.0

For all of its entrepreneurial vigour, the state was more present in the birth of grime than is sometimes realised. In Dan Hancox’s Inner City Pressure, Dizzee Rascal describes the informal circuit of youth clubs that became his apprenticeship: Canning Town and Deptford, the Canary Wharf club that financed Ruff Sqwad’s first ever released, and further east to Beckton, which was Kano’s local.

From Kano to Michael Caine, whose passion for acting first blossomed at Walworth’s Clubland youth club under the Lancashire youth work pioneer Reverend Jimmy Butterworth, the youth…

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An exhibition at Hull’s Humber Street Gallery explores the early performance art work of Throbbing Gristle’s Cosey Fanni Tutti

At the beginning of Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Incognito a vitrine holds a delicate black lace bolero. It’s laid out with her first modelling shots, taken in Hull in 1972, a year before she moved to London and a few years after she joined COUM. In the photos, Cosey is pictured wearing nothing but unbuttoned bolero. She leans forward a little, looking directly at the camera, her expression perfectly unreadable. It’s one of a handful of shots from her very first nude shoot at 21, with a local family portrait photographer. She hoped to get some decent photos in preparation for her Magazine…

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The band’s former guitarist passed away earlier this month after “a long battle with his mental health”

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Geordie Greep has paid tribute to fellow Black Midi co-founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin following his death earlier this month.

Writing on Instagram, Greep said: “It goes without saying that it’s been a really tricky week. Really, really sad and shit. But I think that it’s important I say something here just to have some record of this time and these feelings.”It’s really such a sad thing that’s happened. But I have been trying to focus on what a great person he was, what a force for positivity and goodwill, and how much better he made the lives of everyone who knew him. We all loved him…

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Lightning Bolt have also shared lead track ‘Cloud Core’

Lightning Bolt and OOIOO have joined forces for a new split LP, titled The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral.

Spanning seven tracks, the record takes in two songs from OOIOO, the project of Boredoms drummer YoshimiO, and five further cuts by Rhode Island noise duo Lightning Bolt. The latter have shared lead track ‘Cloud Core’ alongside the album’s announcement, and you can listen to it below.

In a press statement, Lightning Bolt drummer-vocalist Brian Chippendale said: “OOIOO set the tone with The Horizon Spiral but we didn’t really roll with the spiral theme. We’re more Viral than Spiral though they both can dump you in a rabbit hole and we definitely like rabbit holes.”

The new…

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A new comments section open to subscribers will allow people to score and review releases on the site

Pitchfork has announced a new subscription model, which will see its reviews section largely go behind a paywall.

Priced at $5 per month, the paywall will allow subscribers full access to music reviews on the website, as well as a comments section that will give them the chance to score and review releases themselves.

The change sees Pitchfork aim to “publish our readers’ taste and opinions, too,” according to a letter shared by editor Mano Sundaresan. The comments section will be moderated by Pitchfork editors.

Non-subscribers will be given access to four reviews per month, but will not be able to access the comments section.

Pitchfork’s…

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The UK multi-instrumentalist’s third solo album is out in March

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Shabaka Hutchings has shared details of a new album, Of The Earth.

The UK multi-instrumentalist’s third solo record is entirely written, produced, performed and recorded by Hutchings himself, and is described in a press release as “deeply personal”. The LP also sees him rap for the first time, and also sees him return to playing saxophone after an 18-month hiatus from using the instrument for live performance and recordings.

In a statement, Hutchings said: “I’ve never rapped before but was actually inspired by André 3000’s courage in exploring new dimensions with fearlessness and sincerity; I decided to find my voice on this album.”

He continued: “D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar was the…

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The band had initially pulled out over the festival’s treatment of Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah

Pulp have confirmed they will still play this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after previously privately pulling out of the event in protest at the event’s treatment of Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah.

The band issued a statement on social media confirming that they would “honour our invitation to perform in Adelaide on 27 February” after festival organisers performed a U-turn of their own and apologised to Abdel-Fattah for their treatment of her, and cancellation of her appearance at the event. They have now invited her to speak at next year’s event.

It was revealed earlier this month that Abdel-Fattah had been barred from the Adelaide writers’ week, which is part…

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Manu Ekanayake is transported effortlessly back to a time of optimism and creative and cultural flex by a comp digging into the reggae sampling roots of jungle

To create jungle music a cultural melting pot was needed: one with a taste for rave, but also one that could harness Jamaican flavours. Flavours like reggae and more contemporary off-shoot, dancehall, which spawned its own digital offspring, ragga; all of which are all present here. The other parts, for the record (pun intended) are elements of hardcore rave, Belgian nu beat, Detroit techno, hip hop breakbeats and of course the almighty Amen break from American soul group The Winstons’ ‘Amen Brother’, which even people who hate the genre can’t help but recognise. All…

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Ben Graham takes a detailed look at the decadent path trod by David Bowie during the creation of Station To Station

Decadence is an appropriately mutable and ambiguous concept. It can be used to signify the most contemptuous approbation, to suggest rottenness, decay, wasteful amorality and an utter disconnectedness from reality and shared social values. Yet without any real change in its meaning, the word can also be used in praising terms to suggest an alluring glamour, a wild, intoxicating freedom from society’s petty restraints and a sense of abandon and entitlement that is somehow admirable despite, or even because of, its obvious destructiveness. In some ways, decadence is about style over substance, and whether you view that as a sin;…

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Megadeth

Megadeth

Thrash legends’ swan song finds Dave Mustaine and co. at their most Spinal Tap – but perhaps that’s no bad thing?

Like him or loathe him, Dave Mustaine has long been one of the most fascinating figures of the modern metal era.

For all his bravado, his outspokenness, his… let’s call them “traditional” and “patriotic” views (without prodding directly into that hornet’s nest) – not to mention the ease at which he’s made enemies, his habit of trashing other bands (shared by too few musicians these days) – there’s also been a vulnerability floating near the surface.

He had a tough childhood involving an absent father, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, drug taking and dealing. After Mustaine was fired, aged 22, from Metallica before their debut album…

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