David Keenan

4 weeks ago | thequietus.com | David Keenan |John Doran |Jeanette Leech

Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue record shop and mail order company was in business during the period 2005-2015. It specialised in self-released, small-run experimental music; its stock teemed with unfamiliar names, and encouraged the adventurous music fan into new terrain.

1 month ago | thequietus.com | David Keenan |Bobby Barry |Jon Buckland

“I like art where the blood is streaming and the flowers are blooming like hell.” – Peter BrötzmannPitiful royalties. Chronic ticket gouging. Shuttered venues. Charts clogged with nepo babies. Generative AI. Slashed arts funding. Brexit red tape. If you’re looking for signs that music is struggling, you hardly need 20/20 vision. Fortunately, that’s not the whole story. For music to survive all you need are two things: someone to make it and someone to take it seriously.

Dec 3, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | David Keenan

AUTHOR LINKS On Twitter: reversediorama On Goodreads: David Keenan on Goodreads David Keenan was born in Scotland in 1971. Before becoming a novelist, Keenan worked in a record shop, distribution company and record label Volcanic Tongue. He then went into music journalism where his work was highly influential with a focus on underground music scenes such as experimental rock, noise folk, industrial and psychedelia. His first book, England’s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric...

May 29, 2024 | thequietus.com | David Keenan |John Doran

Music writers. Who needs ’em? We recently had the opportunity to get heroic cult indie rocker Stephen Pastel and always impressively scrubbed up writer David Keenan together. We left the former Pastels mainstay and the musician turned champion of underground music turned gifted novelist to have a conversation about their individual and joint practice, without any interference from us.

May 29, 2024 | thequietus.com | David Keenan |John Doran

Music writers. Who needs ’em? We recently had the opportunity to get heroic cult indie rocker Stephen Pastel and always impressively scrubbed up writer David Keenan together. We left the Pastels mainstay and the musician turned champion of underground music turned gifted novelist to have a conversation about their individual and joint practice, without any interference from us.