A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE ONCE A WEEK: the kickstarter for the book of the politics of rockwriting conference

so I am enjoying this and will say more when I finish I guess.

Maybe this was linked to elsewhere, I don't know--Scott Woods interviewing mark s. about the book.

http://rockcritics.com/2019/08/09/interview-with-mark-sinker-editor-of-a-hidden-landscape-once-a-week-a-book-about-the-uk-music-press-which-any-critical-person-could-learn-from-and-enjoy/

I don't check in on rockcritics.com as often as I should, so I sometimes miss things there--the interview goes back a month.

hi all, i am in MANCHESTER for the LOUDER THAN WORDS FESTIVAL to talk abt the book with SIMON FRITH and JOHN McCREADY

https://louderthanwordsfest.com/2019/10/09/a-hidden-landscape/

(Sun 2pm to be precise)

How did Manchester talk go?

i enjoyed it! there were even some quite young people at it lol (some of them left early)

An article on NME history:

https://journals.openedition.org/palimpsestes/4649?lang=en

nice to be cited! the typo in the 13-word quote was not in the book! say hi to eugene from me!

( i will read this later) (im saving it up)

Got some old music press vibes off this interview:

https://newsocialist.org.uk/culture-ordinary-interview-billy-lunn/

Gets a mention here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/07/beethoven-was-black-why-the-radical-idea-still-has-power-today

nice! only gets two things wrong lol (neither matters much tho both will now get traction *sigh*: i wasn't reporting my conversation, it's from the on-stage interview richard williams did with her at the conference -- and val wasn't officially interviewing reich i don't think, just talking to him informally at some point)

ok i checked my own book lol, and yes, apparently she was officially interviewing him

the screenshot of the relevant passage that andrew male tweeted last year is going quietly viral

(someone has already made the bad val kilmer joke in comments, and someone else the worse "fourth reich" joke)

i got to do a "this blew up here's my soundcloud" tweet :D

(linking to the book, i don't really have a soundcloud)

lol just saw that.

A long time ago I remember B3n W**son doing a Steve Reich is an imperialist - type thing (doubt it was on Wire, probably on his site) which he (ofc!) used to prosecute minimalism with.

the essay cited here (it's linked in googledocs further down the thread, for now at least) is very interesting on the complexities of that (i've only had time to skim it):

And for some more interesting reading on Reich's politics:https://t.co/xzpgtAXLIQ

— Pierce Gradone (@piercegradone) September 8, 2020

Excellent interview with Chris Bohn, touches on lots of aspects of Hidden Landscape, further testimony to that time:

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/06/eastern-bloc-rock

Thanks, and speaking of interviews, when Scott posted his Mark interview re this book in '19. I commented:
Great interview—can see I’m going to have to re-read to catch every bit of it (possibly)–as with Mark’s intro to the anthology (was immediately gratified by his hailing of 80s syncretism, a new age [somebody pointed out that this was in part because of cassettes, rough and ready in areas around the world where record and CD players weren’t feasible}. In contrast to some of his contributors, who dismissed the 80s for plastic on everything, Phil Collins and shoulder pads bleghh).
Fave contributions pretty obvious choices: adventures of Val Wilmer, Cynthia Rose having lunch with Andy and his corsets, Hon. Chas Shaar Murray stylin’, Penny Reel! )thanx so much for link to Mark’s Freaky Trigger on him) Also the intriguing Paul Morely, applecart-upsetter Paul Gilroy, and Mr. Frith on his experience in xgau’s version of the Voice line-edit (goes with what I’ve heard from other survivors).

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September 9, 2019 at 2:36 pm

Ah yes, Don, thanks for mentioning Mark’s intro–I would have if I didn’t struggle so much trying to write ANY kind of intro for THIS (I meant to quote a couple bits from it, in fact). It’s really a great thing in itself, wonderfully detailed, lots of open questions.

Here's the whole thing:
https://rockcritics.com/2019/08/09/interview-with-mark-sinker-editor-of-a-hidden-landscape-once-a-week-a-book-about-the-uk-music-press-which-any-critical-person-could-learn-from-and-enjoy/#comments

Came across this tribute to an anarchist organiser who did a lot of work in punk zines.

https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/10/we-remember-jen-angel-a-eulogy