Calum Barnes
melancholic resister | words Tribune, The Quietus and 3:AM | beats Shinlifter | keep cool but care
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- finally reunited with my now most valuable book
- love this for Edinburgh
- wearing this today for a real one
- gutted to hear of the passing of Béla Tarr. in tribute, here’s the time we recreated the bar scene from Werckmeister Harmonies for my 30th birthday in 2019
- reading thread, 2026 edition
- 1. The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams. An assured novel of ideas unlike anything else in the mainstream, a dark academia in a very real sense written with supple verve.
- Chalamet must be getting wary of typecasting as that’s the second year in a row he’s played a smug but talented upstart Jew scamming his way to the top of his field in post-war NYC
- Alasdair Gray’s sardonic definition of postmodernism now reads like a prescient description of tech bros’ AI triumphalism
- i did one of those ‘my books of the year’ things: sigmaportfolio.substack.com/p/cultural-h...
- Reposted by Calum BarnesThank you all, the update than we can barely believe we get to make. To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all. Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
- glad to be ahead once again
- dear @rianjohnson.bsky.social did i miss the Gravity’s Rainbow reference in Wake Up Dead Man??
- great to see national recognition for Phantom Limb at last night’s Saltire Awards!
- Reposted by Calum BarnesWe need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)
- happy On the Calculation of Volume Day to all who celebrate. i’m wearing my shirt to mark it
- Tonight! Come along for what promises to be a stimulating and provocative discussion about literature and how it interrogates our dark pasts, both personal and national.
- Looking forward to talking to the great Swiss novelist Christian Kracht about confronting the dark legacies of twentieth century European history in his latest book, Eurotrash, at Waterstones West End. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/chris...
- utterly depressing to read of the plans to demolish Argyle House, another modernist jewel potentially disappearing from Edinburgh’s urban fabric after the loss of the RBS building on Dundas Street.
- Looking forward to talking to the great Swiss novelist Christian Kracht about confronting the dark legacies of twentieth century European history in his latest book, Eurotrash, at Waterstones West End. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/chris...
- really sorry to hear of the passing of Peter Watkins. La Commune is easily one of the best depictions of revolutionary politics i have ever seen and i know of no one else whose work was so committed to interrogating how the media are complicit with imposing the agenda of capital
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- we must bring these stakes back into criticism
- my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!
- follow our new account, @shinlifter, on instagram
