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It's a double banger of a Quietus Hour week to celebrate our eight birthday and launch of the new podcast version of our weekly selection of the best new music accompanied by passable chat. We've had the special edition where Stewart Lee came in to speak to John Doran about new book Content Provider, some of the music he's listening to currently, and The Fall (obvs). On the second Quietus Hour of the week, Luke Turner is joined by William Doyle, FKA East India Youth, to play choice new and slightly less new belters from the likes of Katie Gately, a Rick Holland collaboration with Chrononautz, the Kamaru Celina Band, Death In Vegas rejiggled by Chris & Cosey, Jenny Hval, The Comet Is Coming, Piano Wire, Gaika, Blanck Mass and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. PLUS! Who is this stranger ringing from across the borders in The Persuader?! You can subscribe to The Quietus Hour podcast via iTunes here.

This week The Quietus is celebrating its eighth birthday as a fully independent music and culture website…. Cheers! Luke will have a pint of flat, room temperature Thadeus Marsh-Hermit’s Brain Cleaver porter in a pewter tankard poured by a gender fluid bar person naked bar for a roll of clingfilm and John would gladly take a well-mashed mug of rooibos and barrel-aged goat sweat tea poured straight from the hollowed out skull of Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There hasn’t been any time for celebrating for anyone who works at tQHQ however as we’re all preparing for the big changes which are afoot here… but more on that before the end of the year. In the meantime we’re very happy to be launching a new podcast for The Quietus Hour, with the first special bonus episode featuring the one and only Stewart Lee. When the comedian and writer visited tQHQ recently we only gave him one instruction: ‘Pick nine songs - no theme, no rationale, doesn’t matter how obscure, how popular or how radio unfriendly, the choice is entirely yours.’ Between the clutch of tracks that he chose - which range from a 1950s field recording of a Roma child singing about boats to a live recording of The Fall playing heavier and more frenziedly than The Stooges - Lee talks at length to tQ editor John Doran. The pair discuss his new prose anthology for Faber Content Provider, getting spiked with acid at a mid-80s Cornish rock festival, his relationship with Shirley Collins, what it feels like to have your writing critiqued by operatives for Communist regimes, his new Brexit-inspired stand up show, what the meaning of vitriol of under the line commentary really signifies, destroying Simple Minds LPs with power tools, releasing Edward Lear-inspired drone poetry on vinyl and how free jazz makes his children cry. If you want to listen to the show with full versions of the songs intact, you can do via Mixcloud. Thanks as always to producer Seb White.

This show of chat and new music has been brought to you by sleep deprivation and coconut water.

Brilliant brand new music and Threads-grade chat from Natalie Sharp and John Doran.

Luke Turner is on a saturnine sabbatical so Lone Taxidermist Natalie Sharp steps into his comfortable brogues to co-present an hour of new music and, frankly, barely passable chat with John Doran. Exclusives from Gazelle Twin and Noura Mint Seymali, not to mention new music from Melt Yourself Down, Islam Chipsy and Pearson Sound. PERSUADE US to play your current favourite song. Leave a voicemail on 020 33 93 63 95. (Remember to say who you are, what song you want and WHY. Calls charged at your normal access rate.)

Watch out, people, John’s back on the coffee and we recorded this show after a double-barrelled-cafetiere staff meeting. AIEEEE! So the chat is, it’s fair to say, a lot more chaotic than our usual ribald, reasoned discourse as we get stuck into important issues like bat hunting, moving house, mouse piss, going on tour with thirsty rock groups and the EU referendum. Along the way we even save a popular arts cinema from vandalism by agreeing to someone’s PERSUADER request. All that and music by Grumbling Fur, Molly Nilsson, Bruxa Maria, Arab Strap and Metamono PLUS we’ve got two exclusive bangers by Flowdan and Factory Floor. OOOOF! If you'd like to request a song for the next show, please leave a voicemail on 020 33 93 63 95 and try to persuade us to play your favourite song.

Orange juice drinking contests at pre-school parties, Keith Chegwin in the sauna, why England has transcended useful satire, Orville The Chicken and other issues are discussed alongside brilliant new music from around the globe.

John arrived at this week’s Quietus Hour recording with a bag of coffee so high-end it came in a packaging made of two eco-friendly materials. With that in mind, we decided to go for a two coffee show and opened with a pair of appropriately momentous bangers by Sex Swing and Robert Hood’s Floorplan. OOOF! As well as more new music by Jenny Hval, Denis Sulta and The Invisible we’ve got a classic overlooked track by The Units, some Family Atlantica and some Adrian Sherwood, not to mention our usual look at the important music news of the day and The Persuader. Plus, Stone Roses fans - a real treat for you in an exclusive live clip from their recent surprise show in Halifax.

This week The Quietus Hour begins with a John Doran who isn't quite as he seems. What is that high-pitched voice, the sound of innocence? On this week's programme we bring you some of our favourite new music from Darren Hayman, Factory Floor, Nails, Loose Meat, Cats Eyes, Warmduscher, Novelist, Miss Red and Cats Eyes, as well as the usual look at the pertinent news reports of the moment AND The Persuader. Plus corned-beef-grade chat about the things that might lurk behind that mysterious third door that always seems to be in rooms in budget hotel chains. Remember that we're now live streaming the recording of these programmes via The Quietus' facebook page - go and like that to have us appearing in your lives every Wednesday around lunchtime, whether you want us there or not.

We're back once again with The Quietus Hour of the best new music and the chat in between. As you'll be able to tell by LISTENING IN we're now broadcasting the show live via Facebook via, which you can find on the official Quietus page. Here you get a warts and all behind the scenes nothing hidden view of tQHQ as we record the programme and decide what to waffle on about between the songs. This week we've new things from Flowdan, ABC, Die Krupps, Zyna Hel, DVA, Wild Beasts, Jessy Lanza, Goat and 47SOUL so basically everything from noisy grime to industrial and R&B via Scandi prog, Palestinian Dabke and randy lads from Kendal. Don't say we're not good to you...

We’re back with another episode of The Quietus Hour, John Doran and Luke Turner’s new programme showcasing the best in new music interspersed with what our social media wizard Karl Smith tweets is “passable chat”. We did a live stream of the show via The Quietus’ Facebook (we’ll be doing this every show now so do go and like our page to watch) but here’s the full HQ version on Mixcloud. This week we discuss hair like the pair of vain eejits we are, and bring you music from the Super Furry Animals, Meatraffle, Happy Meals, Skepta, My Disco, Apothek, Marissa Nadler, Odio Sem Valor and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve. We also look at the pertinent music news of the day and THE PERSUADER… will some one have called 020 33 93 63 95 and convinced us to play them a tune? Remember, next week that could be you. Ring in! Ding ding!

Now then. That’ll teach us to be cocky, won’t it? Just when we though that The Quietus Hour was gliding forth smoothly with a four week run of programmes everything went to hell in pieces on a handcart. Our producer Seb was violently attacked by a bus and both Luke and John got ill, which means we missed a week. Apologies. To make up for this cock-up we’ve hit on the idea of live streaming every episode of The Quietus Hour via our Facebook page. We did this yesterday, with 100s tuning in to watch the show in real time and low quality, extra chat between the songs. For those of you listening to this HQ Mixcloud version, you get the full fat new music music. We’ve also got The Persuader - will someone who’s called 020 3393 6395 be able to persuade us to play a song? (ring for next week) a look at the important music news, and will we have found another cover of D’ya Think I’m Sexy?

The Quietus' Hour radio programme reaches four weeks as John and Luke bring you some of their favourite new music, along with something old in the form of the great, departed Prince. There's music from the Fire! Orchestra, Anonhi, Patience, Vanishing Twin, Theodore Nemy and Young Greatness PLUS Grindmother, your finest in pensioner grindcore. Plus! We explore the pertinent issues in music news, such as what happens to Donald Trump's hair in the event of an anaconda face-sitting, ask which song can be played at both a 40 and a five-year-old's birthday party, discuss the strange home and collection of of Charles Paget Wade, recall our JAZZ SHAME, and see if anyone has managed to persuade us to play them a song. Next week, this could be you - just dial 020 3393 6395 and persuade John and Luke to play you a tune. A TUNE, we say.

On this week's The Quietus hour we've a new slot called Persuasion, whereby we want YOU to get in touch with us to cajole us into playing a song you're particularly loving at the moment. Full details if you listen in, but if you're a lazy swine here's the basics - you can call 020 3393 6395 and leave a message persuading us to play a song of your choice on the next show. John gives details of what is and isn't expecting on the show, along with a new analysis of the latest in music news and our first film review slot. There's also the best new music from Daniel Patrick Quinn, Selvhenter, Gaika, Eva Bowen, Xiu Xiu doing Twin Peaks and Marissa Nadler, plus a new life-saver Velvet Underground cover by Brian Eno, ANOTHER cover of Do You Think I'm Sexy, Coil and Barıs Manco & Kurtalan Ekspre. That's not to mention the chat you love on Luke's battles with woodpeckers in Epping Forest, England's Hidden Reverse, brutal piratical death methods and Spencer's new record shop in Margate.

Could it be? COULD IT BE? We have made two consecutive episodes of The Quietus Radio Hour with nothing going wrong? Electromagnetic pulse detonation between typing this and the show going live notwithstanding, it seems we might have. On this week's programme we play new music from Tom Cohen, Underworld and PJ Harvey's stunning new album (this week's Lead Review) alongside tracks from Jackie Lynn, Fumaça Preta, Yossarians and Susso. We've also got a 1980 Turkish disco cover of 'Do You Think I'm Sexy'! AND speaking of having the horn, Luke discusses a weekend spent blowing Celtic instruments up in Scotland and why Romans hate free jazz, and there's more sausage-plated chat on John's failing memory, Laibach, and Wayne The Fireman's four course pizza meal. Oh yeah, and we reveal the modern-day 'Stairway To Heaven'.