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Adam and the Ants

Aja

Archipelago

Autechre

Backwoodz

Basic Channel

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Han Bennink

Berceuse Heroique

Bilge Pump

Blank

Blóm

Boards of Canada

Bongo Joe

Boundaries Festival

The Bricks

Bullwackies

The Byrds

Captain Beefheart

Cardiacs

Cave

Charlottefield

Chlorine

Cleckhuddersfax

Nels Cline

Cocteau Twins

John Coltrane

Chris Corsano

Cruel Nature

Crushing Death and Grief

Dark Northumbrian

Darrifourcq Hermia Ceccaldi

Rhodri Davies

Nick Jonah Davis

Beatrice Dillon

Dischord

Dorcha

Dream Syndicate

Endless Boogie

Endless Records

Fret

Grey Hairs

Gringo Records

The Gun Club

Mary Halvorson

Haress

Heaven 17

Hive Mind

Jazz North East

Julia Holter

Honest Jon’s

The Horse Loom

Husker Du

Bert Jansch

The Jesus Lizard

Joy Division

C Joynes

Kendo Nagasaki

Stef Kett

King Tubby

KLS

Kogumaza

Cate Le Bon

Lone Taxidermist

Long Lonesome Go

Low

Kali Malone

Manchester Collective

Meat Puppets

Minutemen

Mission of Burma

National Funk

The Necks

Joanna Newsom

NTS

Nyege Nyege Tapes

Objections

Olanza

Opal Tapes

Pefkin

Pink Siifu

Polestar

Lucy Railton

Mette Rasmussen

Rattle

Reciprocate

Tomeka Reid

Mariam Rezaei

Rhythm and Sound

Arthur Russell

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Sloath

Spindle Ensemble

Stick in the Wheel

Sweet Williams

Sun Ra

Paul Taylor

Tar

Television

The Murder of Rosa Luxembourg

Thread Recordings

Tied and Tickled Trio

Tortoise

The Trilogy Tapes

Tusk

Twomanhammer

Unwound

Vehicle Derek

Aby Vulliamy

Wolves (of Greece!)

Workin’ Man Noise Unit

Wrong Speed Records

Robert Wyatt

Yeah You

Zuli

Writing

Paul Auster

Kevin Barry

Barter Books

Raymond Carver

John Cheever

Rob Doyle

Forum Books

Amy Liptrot

Clarice Lispector

Eimear McBride

Ross McGivern

Iris Murdoch

Benjamin Myers

Bertrand Russell

Judith Schalansky

W.G. Sebald

Muriel Spark

Donna Tartt

Jeanette Winterson

Art

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Dom Sylvester Houédard

Grassi

Anselm Kiefer

Jim Moir

Narbi Price

Odilon Redon

Bridget Riley

Kuba Ryniewicz

David Shrigley

Simon Stalenhag

Bill Viola

Film

BFI

Hal Hartley

Jim Jarmusch

Spike Jonze

Aki Kaurismaki

Harmony Korine

David Lynch

Studio Ghibli

Wim Wenders

Bikes

Boneshaker

Brother

Kinesis

Kirkley Cycles

Look Mum No Hands

Pedalling Squares

Salsa

SBC

Surly

Places

Cluny

Linhope Spout

The Lubber Fiend

Plug In The Gear

Rumbling Kern

Simonside

Star and Shadow

Wharf Chambers

Comedy

Tommy Cooper

Larry David

Limmy

Sarah Silverman

Doug Stanhope

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