Patrick Clarke
@paddyclarke.bsky.social
Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // demented forces push me madly round a treadmill
I don’t know why I bother trying to make notes when reviewing dark gigs when I’m left with this to work with the following morning
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I don’t know why I bother trying to make notes when reviewing dark gigs when I’m left with this to work with the following morning
Don’t think I’ve been in a hotter, more airless room than Brixton Academy for LCD Soundsysten last night - but in a way it kind of worked in a dazzling Hieronymus Bosch hell-painting kinda way
June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Don’t think I’ve been in a hotter, more airless room than Brixton Academy for LCD Soundsysten last night - but in a way it kind of worked in a dazzling Hieronymus Bosch hell-painting kinda way
Gonna get a tin of sardines for every year I’ve been alive and eat them all in one go
April 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Gonna get a tin of sardines for every year I’ve been alive and eat them all in one go
A fantastic world indeed
April 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A fantastic world indeed
Unusually low tide on Wapping beach yesterday - favourite finds include pipe bowls, a ha’penny and a live eel
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Unusually low tide on Wapping beach yesterday - favourite finds include pipe bowls, a ha’penny and a live eel
I was invited to the opening night of the My Neighbour Totoro stage show (I’m assuming due to some kind of administrative error / elaborate prank)
My reserves of childlike wonder are pretty depleted at this point, but it really eked out every drop.
11/10 believe the hype
My reserves of childlike wonder are pretty depleted at this point, but it really eked out every drop.
11/10 believe the hype
March 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I was invited to the opening night of the My Neighbour Totoro stage show (I’m assuming due to some kind of administrative error / elaborate prank)
My reserves of childlike wonder are pretty depleted at this point, but it really eked out every drop.
11/10 believe the hype
My reserves of childlike wonder are pretty depleted at this point, but it really eked out every drop.
11/10 believe the hype
Belgium what the fuck
February 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Belgium what the fuck
OOO now on til Jan! Feeling unbelievably burnt out after a low-key hellish year
That said, spying my book on the shelves of Rough Trade never fails to give me the lift I need
plz forgive the ego-post and cya in Jan!!!
That said, spying my book on the shelves of Rough Trade never fails to give me the lift I need
plz forgive the ego-post and cya in Jan!!!
December 20, 2024 at 4:55 PM
OOO now on til Jan! Feeling unbelievably burnt out after a low-key hellish year
That said, spying my book on the shelves of Rough Trade never fails to give me the lift I need
plz forgive the ego-post and cya in Jan!!!
That said, spying my book on the shelves of Rough Trade never fails to give me the lift I need
plz forgive the ego-post and cya in Jan!!!
And here are my personal 20 favourite albums of the year, not that you asked
December 2, 2024 at 11:51 AM
And here are my personal 20 favourite albums of the year, not that you asked
Saw a guy carrying a hornbill on the Bakerloo line yesterday. Didn’t get a pic so you’ll just have to believe me
November 29, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Saw a guy carrying a hornbill on the Bakerloo line yesterday. Didn’t get a pic so you’ll just have to believe me
Lovely words from Andy of the wonderful
@coloursmayvary.bsky.social shop in Leeds picking out Bedsit Land as his favourite book of the year - it's warmed the icy cockles of my heart
www.yalerep.co.uk/bookshop/col...
@coloursmayvary.bsky.social shop in Leeds picking out Bedsit Land as his favourite book of the year - it's warmed the icy cockles of my heart
www.yalerep.co.uk/bookshop/col...
November 21, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Lovely words from Andy of the wonderful
@coloursmayvary.bsky.social shop in Leeds picking out Bedsit Land as his favourite book of the year - it's warmed the icy cockles of my heart
www.yalerep.co.uk/bookshop/col...
@coloursmayvary.bsky.social shop in Leeds picking out Bedsit Land as his favourite book of the year - it's warmed the icy cockles of my heart
www.yalerep.co.uk/bookshop/col...
It was fucking great
November 20, 2024 at 12:04 AM
It was fucking great
Fun and joy at the Xiu Xiu gig
November 19, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Fun and joy at the Xiu Xiu gig
Evicshen: good!
November 19, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Evicshen: good!
Very much blown away by @msclairebiddles.bsky.social review of my book Bedsit Land in the latest Tribune. To be honest, I'm not sure I've ever felt this validated as a writer.
They've let me share the first page so I can show off, plz buy the superb mag to read the rest!
They've let me share the first page so I can show off, plz buy the superb mag to read the rest!
November 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Very much blown away by @msclairebiddles.bsky.social review of my book Bedsit Land in the latest Tribune. To be honest, I'm not sure I've ever felt this validated as a writer.
They've let me share the first page so I can show off, plz buy the superb mag to read the rest!
They've let me share the first page so I can show off, plz buy the superb mag to read the rest!
Saw these matryoshka dolls in the charity shop, convinced the first two are supposed to be *someone* but I don’t know who and it’s driving me completely insane
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Saw these matryoshka dolls in the charity shop, convinced the first two are supposed to be *someone* but I don’t know who and it’s driving me completely insane
Excellent times as always at Robyn’s Rocket, my favourite night in London
November 15, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Excellent times as always at Robyn’s Rocket, my favourite night in London