Ken Hollings
Issue 498
August 2025
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Essay
“New acoustic spaces in the dancehall”: The Sabres Of Paradise reviewed
July 2025
The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498
“Steeped in dystopian dread”: Clipping and Black Rain reviewed
April 2025
In The Wire 494, Ken Hollings reviews two albums inspired by William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer
Essay
End times and rapture: remembering Richard H Kirk
September 2021
Ken Hollings recalls various encounters with Cabaret Voltaire’s pioneering electronic and post-punk musician, and reflects on Kirk's relationship with time and technology
Issue 440
October 2020
Essay
Kill Me Again… Ennio Morricone and the music of the future
July 2020
Ken Hollings maps the late Italian composer’s use of power chords and psychedelic rock tropes to crack open his crime and horror soundtracks
Issue 424
June 2019
Issue 391
September 2016
Tracks
Listen: Ken Hollings's "Parasitic Infestation"
September 2015
Stream a recording from Ken Hollings's Works For Magnetic Tape, forthcoming on The Tapeworm label
News
Wire contributor Ken Hollings uncages new cassette
Wire contributor Ken Hollings uncages new cassette
Wire contributor Ken Hollings will release a cassette on the Berlin based tape label The Tapeworm.
News
Ken Hollings broadcasting radio show on William S Burroughs
Ken Hollings broadcasting radio show on William S Burroughs
BBC Radio 4 programme looks at cutup as satirical device, including interviews with Vicki Bennett, Armando Iannucci and more
Issue 363
May 2014
Issue 352
June 2013
Issue 331
September 2011
News
Global Communication & Ken Hollings At The British Library
Global Communication & Ken Hollings At The British Library
As part of the British Library’s Out Of This World exhibition, regular Wire contributor Ken Hollings will be performing with the Radio...
Issue 323
January 2011
Issue 318
August 2010
Issue 315
May 2010
Issue 314
April 2010
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The Portal
Ken Hollings's Portal
December 2008
Tracks
Ken Hollings: Martian Chronicles
December 2008
Hear the 'soundtrack' to Ken Hollings's book Welcome To Mars
Issue 275
January 2007
Issue 273
November 2006
Issue 271
September 2006
