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Leading up to Le Guess Who? 2025, The Wire is sharing some of the beautiful features from their archives. Until 10 November, you're able to read interviews with festival artists Lonnie Holley, Sunn O))), Klein, Pram and Attila Csihar for free in the online library of The Wire.
Lonnie Holley: The seed and the sower
The Wire 438, August 2020
The life works of musician and artist Lonnie Holley are self-nurtured from his “rented out” childhood working in the American Deep South’s industrial schools. By Emily Pothast. Photography by Nydia Blas
Klein: A life less ordinary
The Wire 453, November 2021
South London musician, playwright, computer game writer and film maker Klein creates uncanny visions of possible lives through collage and subversion. By Abi Bliss. Photography by Joyce NG
Pram: Domestic bliss
The Wire 286, December 2007
Unfulfilled dreams of travel, low-fidelity space odysseys, charity shop LP binges and photophonic experiments, plus the comfortable tension of their communal dwelling: it’s all jumbled up in Pram’s exotic avant pop. By Keith Moliné. Photography by Ivan Jones
Invisible Jukebox: Attila Csihar
The Wire 382, December 2015
Each month in The Wire, a musician or group is played a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. This issue it was the turn of Hungarian avant metal vocalist Attila Csihar. Tested by Edwin Pouncey. Photography by Ronald Dick
Sunn O))): The gathering storm
The Wire 302, April 2009
Through their diverse enthusiasms and ritualistic staging, Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson of Sunn O))) have reimagined metal as an open, collaborative platform sucking in thunderhead drones, cosmic jazz, Deep Listening horns, female choirs and spectralist harmonics, melded together at crushing volume. By Joseph Stannard. Photography by Tom Hunter
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