Francis Blagburn

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Francis Blagburn

The MUBI film’s award-winning creator Christopher Andrews and composer Hannah Peel on tying sonic textures to physical environment, and finding inspiration in Steve Reich’sDrumming. Christopher Andrews is the writer and director of Bring Them Down, a terse, brooding revenge thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. The film tells the story of two warring farming families in rural west Ireland as their grievances spill over into violent recriminations.

Oct 13, 2024 | review31.co.uk | Francis Blagburn

Garth Greenwell, Small Rain Picador, 320pp, ISBN 978-1509874699 £18.99In her 1926 essay ‘On Being Ill’, Virginia Woolf wrote that ‘illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.’ Almost a century on and it’s still true. There is, of course, plenty of excellent writing about illness, and more of it arriving all the time, but it’s relatively rare for this to take the form of the novel.

Jun 6, 2024 | crackmagazine.net | Francis Blagburn

06.06.24 Words by: Francis Blagburn Photography: Holly Mccandless-Desmond Art direction: Michelle Helena Janssen Styling: Jordan Dean Schneider Makeup: Theresa Davies Hair: Mike O’Gorman Movement Director: Liam John Hill 1st Photography Assistant: Ian Blackburn 2nd Photography Assistant: Joe Hunt Photography Intern: Imogen Taylor On their fourth album Romance, Fontaines D.C. are shedding their image as literary post-punks in favour of fantasy, love and extremity that defies over-analysis “He...

Apr 6, 2024 | crackmagazine.net | Francis Blagburn

04.06.24 Words by: Francis Blagburn Photography: Jessica Hill From the decline of capitalism to climate change, personal grief and mental unravelling, Chicago’s purveyors of tightly wound post-punk, Stuck, are raging against our broken systems the only way they know how – through a mix of empathetic fury and fun Chicago post-punk band Stuck are knee-deep in the first UK date of their debut European tour, at south London’s New Cross Inn. Before the show, singer and guitarist Greg Obis was...

Jun 9, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Francis Blagburn