101 from 2021
Oh What a lovely year for Outsideleft Stories. Below are the 101 most widely read stories of our year. Thanks for reading!
- Speaking and Singing at the Same Time
Duncan Jones' Speaking and Singing at the same time, was our most widely read story in 2021. Duncan says Dry Cleaning didn't invent the chatty vocal style... by Duncan Jones - Outsideleft at SXSW - Feature Film Reviews - Comedy
Lake on two SXSW comedy feature film premieres. SXSW is a big event for film and Lake dissected some of the shorter ones by Lake - I am 52 and the Armed is on the Bluetooth
The Armed are a radiant flower bursting through the sidewalk cracks, an expression of wild nature paved over by some forgotten elder clan by Alex V. Cook - The Art of Don & Moki Cherry - Organic Music Societies - Book Review
Lake previews a major new publication on the remarkable Don Cherry and Moki Cherry. by Lake - Can 'Shoplifters Of The World' Live Up To The Myth It Was Inspired By?
Never let the truth get in the way of a movie about your heroes by Alarcon - No More War
A Short Film by Giles Duley and Robert Del Naja by Tim London - Then Melanie Howard Creates A Masterpiece
Such Small Hands' debut LP Carousel is beautiful and unbound by Ancient Champion - A Furious Devotion: The Story of Shane MacGowan
Richard Balls' biography tells it like it is by Ancient Champion - Millicent Chapanda - Celebrating Sanctuary Livestream
Mbira superstar Millicent Chapanda opens the Celebrating Sanctuary livestream series by Lee Paul - Say Hello... Wave Goodbye
Jay Lewis revisits Japan with the release of the Deluxe Edition of 'Quiet Life' by Jay Lewis - Track by Track: Athenian - Momus
Momus takes us on a song by song circuit of 'Athenian', his latest album by John Robinson - Erratics and Unconformities
2020 long form recording of the year was by Craven Faults by Jay Lewis - Deadly Cuts / I Blame Society / Slalom - Film Reviews
Lake looks at three debut feature films from female directors, Rachel Carey, Gillian Wallace Horvat and Charlène Favier by Lake - John Robinson Week in Outsideleft, Beginning on November 1st
Coniciding with the publication of John Robinson's Momus Book, It's John Robinson Week at Outsideleft by LamontPaul - Afrik'Art Festival 2021: Magic In Montpellier
Art Exhibitions, Artistic Residences, Fashion shows, Film Screenings, Live performance, Conferences... by LamontPaul - Outsideleft Week in Music
We're hearing from Billy Nomates, Nick Cave, Megan Thee Stallion, The Wedding Present, Paul Weller, Alan Vega, The Horrors, Fela Kuti, Discodor, Sofia Kourtesis, Jane Birkin, Baby Queen, Dinsoaur Jr and more... by Jay Lewis - Serge Gainsbourg: Relax Baby be Cool
Hamilton High On Jeremy Allen's Serge bio by Hamilton High - Momus: We're All Athenian Now
Ahead of Momus himself walking us through his new record, track by track, John Robinson listens to Athenian by John Robinson - Interview: Emma Purshouse
Renowned Performance Poet, Emma Purshouse talks about her new novel Dogged, and all sorts... by LamontPaul - Madlib has a message from your Sound Ancestors
Alex Cook says Madlib and Four Tet makes sense. Dirt and flowers. Static and signal. Groove and needle. by Alex V. Cook - Jasdeep Singh Degun
The WOMAD at HOME series continues this week with Jasdeep Singh Degun by Hamilton High - The Predictable Unpredictability of Nicolas Cage - Willy's Wonderland - Film Review
Lake looks at Nicolas Cage in Willy's Wonderland. by Lake - Outsideleft at SXSW - Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror - Review
Lake ventures deep into the woods on the trail of the deeper roots of folk horror. by Lake - Amelia Troubridge shoots Motorhead
In 1997, photographer Amelia Troubridge went on her first rocknroll tour assignment with... Motorhead by Ancient Champion - Hausen - the heating is broken and the radiators are full of black gunk
That's just the start of the misery, John Robinson says... by John Robinson - Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts - Film Review
Lake looks at a documentary examining the life of the American artist Bill Traylor. by Lake - Mon Amour
A new poem from Christian Present by Christian Present - Anarchy In A Small Corner of The UK
The new weekly Ancient Champion Column Starts here by Ancient Champion - A Bunch Of Five - Tom Braham
Our new infrequent series in which somebody special picks five things that make their world go around continues with London hairdresser and man about town Tom Braham by Lake - Track By Track: Blood - The Real Tuesday Weld
Bandleader Stephen Coates talks us through the group's great new album Blood one song at a time by Lee Paul - Nancy's Seven Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues Oozes...
...like it is being squoze from a tube to be applied to a rash by Alex V. Cook - This looks like a gas station tape from an alternative 1983
Everything about the new Tamar Aphek album is perfect. by Alex V. Cook - Stewart Lee, King Rocker
Stewart Lee's documentary about The Nightingales comes to Sky Arts by Lake - Lorna Rose in the Garden
Our favourite artist Lorna Rose shares some of her lockdown work by Ancient Champion - Going Shopping #1: RPM Analogue Audio
The first in our occasional series, with Richard March of PWEI, BRA and now... RPM Analogue Audio by Jay Lewis - The Pop Group vs. Dennis Bovell
Coventry City of Culture Music Festival by Tim London - Celebrating Sanctuary with the Ava Band
Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham streams the Ava Band by LamontPaul - Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Some people still think little girls should be seen and not heard by Lake - TRZTN's Royal Dagger Ballet
Psychosexual fun in Paris and New York by John Robinson - Setting The Mumble Free From The Formaldehyde
The Carnage of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis by Alex V. Cook - Chantal's Good With Wood
Finding Britain's Best Woodworker by Lee Paul - No-production: Stillness and Exile
Jeremy Gluck's Nonceptual, No Production Manifesto by Jeremy Gluck - Michael Beach's Dream Violence
Alex V. Cook thinks he hears a stray Mountain Goat strumming by Alex V. Cook - Outsideleft at SXSW - The Drover's Wife - The Legend of Molly Johnson - Review
Lake's final film review from SXSW 2021, a revisionist western from Australia by Lake - Born in 1996
25 Albums That Turn 25 in 2021. Do they hold up? by Alarcon - And In The End...
'Let it Be' as it should have been (and more). by Jay Lewis - Collapsing in Sunbeams
Erin looks into what Arlo Parks is looking into by Erin - Ancient Champion: Getting Ready For Nothing
This week Ancient Champion's got nothing going on but the stain on the decking by Ancient Champion - Follow the Science
Jay Lewis follows Laurie Anderson's landmark science class by Jay Lewis - Quiet Howls for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The original influencer by Alex V. Cook - Tick Tock Tick Tick The Metronomic Rock
A poem from Toon Traveler by Toon Traveller - SXSW Shorts Round-Up Part Three - More Narrative
Outsideleft's Lake in More Shorts at SxSW by Lake - Moods From Moderns...
Sleaford Mods' Spare Ribs is their best yet by Jay Lewis - Refugee Week - World Music & Arts Festival
Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham is bringing people together in Refugee Week with Live and Streamed Music, Arts and Culture by Lee Paul - Milkwater - Film Review
Lake on Morgan Ingari's impressive debut feature film. Drama. Comedy. Surrogacy. by Lake - Viva! Alan Vega
Alan Vega's lost album comes from Sacred Bones by Toon Traveller - The King Is Dead
Larry King, Legendary Talk Show Host, Cultural Icon, Dies at 87 by Alarcon - Sarah Mary Chadwick
Alex V Cook says Me and Ennui are Friends, Baby, reveals the actual frayed edges of Sarah Mary Chadwick's nerves by Alex V. Cook - Track by Track: Museumgoer 16
Narcoleptic Taxi's, Trees, a Mudlark Crisis, Flying Cars and a General Lament. Museumgoer 16 has all this and more... by Lee Paul - The Ultimate Distractions
Alex V Cook hears the Tindersticks talking to him by Alex V. Cook - The Evanescence of a Dream
The Southern California multimedia artist, Victoria Arriola, bursts gently from a five year dream by LamontPaul - Track by Track: S/T by Flowertown
San Francisco duo Flowertown talk us through their new LP, S/T... by Lee Paul - I Can See For Miles
Tower Block author Professor Miles Glendinning talks to Outsideleft by LamontPaul - The Main Benefit of Volatile Organic Solvents in Dry Cleaning is Fire
Alex V. Cook gets along with Dry Cleaning's New Long Leg by Alex V. Cook - The Abolitions Festival
The 9th Abolitions Festival in Paris and Brittany from May 6th - May 29th by LamontPaul - It's John Robinson Week in Outsideleft!
1. The Excerpts: Excerpts from John's new Momus book, Famous for Fifteen People by LamontPaul - For Black Country New Road, a dazzling journey begins in a triumph
'For the First Time' may be one of the finest musical achievements of 2021 by Jay Lewis - The True Don Quixote
Lake looks at a contemporary, Louisiana set, update of the Don Quixote story starring Coen brothers' veteran Tim Blake Nelson and somehow avoids using the words 'tilting' and 'windmills' by Lake - Buck's Meek...
Buck Meek has Two Saviours for you this week by Lee Paul - Woodstock '99 Killed The Androgynous Pop Star
'Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage' documents the final fling for androgyny with pop music by Alarcon - Rachael Cox Never Stops
Rachael Cox, talks about Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham, their acclaimed Bitesize Streaming series and the forthcoming Refugee Week by LamontPaul - The American Negro
Adrian Younge's One Man Global Saturday School by LamontPaul - Baby Please Don't Touch
Alarcon and Ancient Champion on the sacrosanct songs you just don't touch and 10 cover versions that defied the logic and the rules by Alarcon - Daniel Meadows - Factory Records 1979-1980
Cafe Royal Books and photographer Daniel Meadows publish candids from the Factory floor by Hamilton High - Jazz Rock, Fashion. When in a post covid world
Toon Traveler Heels are Cooled, he has time to think about the dearth of Jazz Rock cover bands by Toon Traveller - Rough Trade Books X Garden Museum - Pamphlet Series
The new Rough Trade Books x Garden Museum pamphlet series are a joy. And we've got a bonus Bunch of Five songs for gardening selected by writer/gardener Susanna Grant. by Lake - The Pleasure Principle
Self Esteem begins with this by Jay Lewis - Long Live Aaron Beck
Dr. Richard Bennett remembers Aaron Beck (1921-2021), the founder of cognitive therapy by Dr. Richard Bennett - Eclectic Lady Land: A Playlist from the Future
Katherine Pargeter celebrates the release of the movie Sisters With Transistors with an all experimental playlist by Katherine Pargeter - Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham with Niwel Tsumbu and Eamonn Cagney
The final Bitesize concert of the season by LamontPaul - Beyond the end of the Bayou
Louisiana's The Rakers return with a new single, Endless Blue by Lee Paul - John Robinson has Sorrows on his turntable
Love Too Late was in danger of never being released at all... by John Robinson - A Bunch of Five - Anthony Reynolds
Anthony Reynolds picks five things that make the world go around by Lake - Charting Territory Unknown
Germa Adan's sweet melodies for difficult days by LamontPaul - Russian germanium transistors fitted here, if that's your bag
on making fuzz with guitar amp and pedal maker, Jonny Brelliott by Lee Paul - C. D. Rose's Run For The Hills
The Blind Accordionist is a collection of short stories from C. D. Rose, isn't it? by LamontPaul - Tap your spoons on your cups
Hamilton High on the gentle invention of the Wau Wau Collectif by Hamilton High - Nineteen Ways of Looking at a Cello
Scott Ordway's stark cello compositions, as animated by Arlen Hlusko by Jay Lewis - Release The Hawks
'The Greatest Album Never Made' is finally released by Jay Lewis - The Blues Are Still Blue
Jay Lewis's favourite album is fifty years old, you may have heard of it by Jay Lewis - Kind of Punk
- the recollections of a 'nice girl' in a small town - by Tim London - Everyone Loves Ascending Fourths
Erin listens to black midi's ambitious second long player by Erin - Keith Moon Died For Somebody's Sins, But Not Mine
It was 43 years ago today... by Alarcon - Racist Tones
A selection of authors recall racist encounters in the 70s/80s by Tim London - Track by Track: Seventh Season by Brother Lee
Brother Lee walks us through his new acoustic-pysche LP by LamontPaul - Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Does Morgan Neville's film about Anthony Bourdain shed light on his suicide? by Alarcon - Oh! Brother
Brother Lee's Seventh Season LP is a psychedelic lite deelite by Lee Paul - Old Bill
Billie Eilish holds on in the eye of her storm by Erin - Anna Meredith: The Artful Dodgem
Anna Meredith's Bumps Per Minute is a thrill ride, of course. by Jay Lewis - The Top 10 Heartbreakers
Songs to soothe the loveless, lovelorn, unloveable, and brokenhearted. Love is a battlefield. by Alarcon - An Ocean Full of Excellence
The exhilarating debut from Squid by Erin