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Lucy Thraves
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Listen back to last Thursday's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social
and included music by Ivor Cutler, Teoniki Rożynek, TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more

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Lucy Thraves presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire
The 6 November edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Ivor Cutler, Teoniki Rożynek, TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more
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November 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound and Music, playing tracks by Ivor Cutler, Meredith Monk (pictured), TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more.

Tune in from 9pm GMT: extra.resonance.fm/schedule

📷 by Amber Mahoney
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Chatted to claire rousay for this month's Wire cover. We spoke about sobriety, San Antonio, field recordings, atonement, William Basinski’s clothes, living in cities, the confessional mode, self sacrifice & much besides. Her new album a little death comes out end of Oct.

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October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The Wire 501.

Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday.
October 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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end-of-summer shoe
September 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Adventures In Sound And Music returns after its summer break, with @lucythraves.bsky.social playing music by Ornette Coleman Trio, Weston Olencki, feeo, Valentina Magaletti & YPY & many more.

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September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Still find it surreal that I get to contribute to the life of this miraculous publication. To be soppy and grandiose about it (what else are milestones for?), it's changing my life, which is kind of what it does, if you let it.
thewiremagazine.bsky.social The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Aug 29
Next week, The Wire will publish its 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th issue, which feels like something worth celebrating.

By way of reflection, we've taken a look back through the archive at our previous milestones.

1) 50 Undersung Musicians (Issue 50, April 1988)
August 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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robinjames.bsky.social Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · Aug 25
the main thing that happened to music criticism in the last 25 years is it got defunded
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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This is both correct, and not radical enough: we should ban 99% of all privately-owned cars from inner cities. Blue badge holders, emergency services, finite number of permits for commercial deliveries, buses, bikes, and that’s it. No able-bodied person in Zone 1 actually needs a Land Rover, sorry.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
August 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I hear rumours that 2035 is going to beat both of them!
July 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Devastated at the news about JD Twitch. Keith has been a constant in our lives and all those who love music. Sending love to his family and Jonnie❤️ @optimo-espacio.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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fantastic evisceration of a widely celebrated, posh gentleman farmer polemic by @lucythraves.bsky.social for Tribune, with perceptive reflections about the Right to Roam campaign
tribunemagazine.bsky.social Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 13
A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.
Solidarity of the Ruling Class
A new book by a former <i>Shooting Times</i> editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough,…
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June 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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I reviewed a new book about land access by a writer purporting to be a neutral observer to that debate.

It turns out, that's a lie.
alexniven.bsky.social Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social · Jun 13
This devastating review of Patrick Galbraith’s Uncommon Ground by @lucythraves.bsky.social could burn the heather on a thousand grouse moors
tribunemagazine.bsky.social Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 13
A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.
June 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Some sonic soup for the soul
June 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by DJ Marcelle, Mark Stewart (pictured), Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders, B Abbas & R Abou-Rahme & more.

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June 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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May 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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This 1990s anime’s ability to capture the mood of America 2025 is uncanny
A sad old man hunched over his drink in a bar. The subtitle reads “This era has lasted a century, and so I thought it would go on forever.” The men at the bar listen as the old man continues, “but when you think about it, there’s no basis for that at all”
May 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Desiring truth

Virginia Woolf, ‘Monday or Tuesday’
Monday or Tuesday Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out! A mountain? Oh, perfect - the sun gold on its slopes. Down that falls. Ferns then, or white feathers, for ever and ever - Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, for ever desiring - (a cry starts to the left, another to the right. Wheels strike divergently. Omnibuses conglomerate in conflict) - for ever desiring - (the clock asseverates with twelve distinct strokes that it is midday;' light sheds gold scales; children swarm) - for ever desiring truth. Red is the dome; coins hang on the trees; smoke trails from the chimneys; bark, shout, cry 'Iron for sale' - and truth? Radiating to a point men's feet and women's feet, black or gold-encrusted - (This foggy weather - Sugar? No, thank you - The commonwealth of the future) - the firelight darting and making the room red, save for the black figures and their bright eyes, while outside a van discharges, Miss Thingummy drinks tea at her desk, and plate-glass preserves fur coats - Flaunted, leaf-light, drifting at corners, blown across the wheels, silver-splashed, home or not home, gathered, scattered, squandered in separate scales, swept up, down, torn, sunk, assembled - and truth? Now to recollect by the fireside on the white square of marble. From ivory depths words rising shed their blackness, blossom and penetrate. Fallen the book; in the flame, in the smoke, in the momentary sparks - or now voyaging, the marble square pendant, minarets beneath and the Indian seas, while space rushes blue and stars glint - truth? or now, content with closeness? Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them.
May 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new and recent releases by Goldie (pictured), Quade, Donna Candy, OHYUNG, aya, and many more.

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March 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I'll be talking to Toby Manning about his Marxist history of pop this Wednesday in Walthamstow.
March 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Interviewed Infinity Knives for the issue of The Wire. Life is tough; smoking a cig (backwards) helps
March 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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i feel like the only person who could possibly get close to making sense of sinkholes - aesthetically, narratively, even scientifically - is M John Harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘We’re just terrified’: People evacuate homes after sinkhole appears on Surrey high street
Water supply turned off in Godstone as 20-metre hole swallows up a garden
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February 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A beauty ❤️
thewiremagazine.bsky.social The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · Feb 4
The Wire 493 is out now!

www.thewire.co.uk/issues/493

Featuring Masma Dream World, Louis Laurain, Caxtrinho, Able Noise, Lydia Lunch's Invisible Jukebox, Polonius, Macie Stewart, Chris Cundy, and much, much more.

📷 Cover by Courtney Sofiah Yates
February 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Listen back to last night's edition of Adventures In Sound And Music, hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social.

The episode featured music by Circuit Des Yeux, Infinity Knives, John Wall, Annette Peacock, Lonnie Holley, Lucrecia Dalt and more.

www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
Lucy Thraves presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire
The 30 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Circuit Des Yeux, Infinity Knives, John Wall, Annette Peacock, Lonnie Holley, Lucrecia Dal...
www.thewire.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM