December, 2023
Ancient Champion: Columnist
We’re not really sure who Ancient Champion is as we only ever communicate via email, text, and the occasional postcard. There's so much we don't know, yet every article written lets us in a little more. Where’s Ancient Champion from? "Nowhere and everywhere and nowhere,” the Champ responded when we asked simply for tax purposes.
What we are sure of is that the Champ is a musician who once dabbled in lo-fi garage rock & roll years before revivalists like The Strokes made it popular. About 10 or so years ago, put the electric gee-tars and effects pedals in storage, and dusted off his old keyboards and drum machines. These days the Champ makes “easy listening for difficult people.” Electronic instrumentals dripping with misanthropy and melancholy. It's good music to chill out to.
What’s next for Ancient? 2021 will see more of his works -- more music, more live gigs (pandemic permitting), more articles, and his eagerly awaited short story collection, Six Stories About Motoring Nowhere which will be released on SideCartel as part of their Sextet series. We’ll keep you posted.
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What Readers are Reading Right Now
- The Best Worst Band in the World?
Alan Rider reports back on 'An Endless Discontent', a skilful dissection of the enigma that was Throbbing Gristle - Surviving Genesis
Alaura O'Dell (Paula P-Orridge) talks to Alan Rider about Psychic TV, misogyny, exile, living on $5 a day and reclaiming her past. - Outsideleft Week in Music is in with the Trees
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Precision Cheesemaking Transgressions Given Away or Taken - A Message For You
Book Now to see Adrian Goldberg in conversation with 2 Tone author Daniel Rachel, discussing Daniel's new book 'Too Much Too Young' - The Art of Being A Special
Former Specials bassist Horace Panter talks expansively to Alan Rider about losing Terry Hall, life after The Specials, flat art, the Dirt Road Band, selfie culture, and extreme calligraphy. - I've Got 5 On It
42 records max out on Hearts in November - Back in the World
Peter Gabriel's overly generous return. - Sunday Morning Poet: Charlie Hill
...On the politeness of Jacob Ress-Mogg
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