Clive Bell
Issue 500
October 2025
Tracks
Invisible Jukebox mix: Lea Bertucci
September 2025
Listen to the music we played to Lea Bertucci during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 500
Issue 497
July 2025
Issue 493
March 2025
Issue 484
June 2024
The Portal
Breath tradition: Clive Bell on shakuhachi and Shabaka
March 2024
Following Shabaka Hutchings’ adoption of the shakuhachi flute, which features heavily in his new album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Clive Bell discusses other players and significant recordings featuring the instrument
Issue 481
March 2024
The Portal
The Primer: Fred Frith
January 2024
To coincide with his interview with the British composer, improvisor and multi-instrumentalist in The Wire 479/480, Clive Bell compiles a primer of works from Fred Frith’s vast discography
Issue 479/480
January 2024
Issue 475
September 2023
Issue 471
May 2023
Issue 469
March 2023
The Portal
From The Archive by Clive Bell
January 2023
Contributor Clive Bell selects ten pieces of writing from The Wire’s back pages featuring Michael Nyman, Chris Watson, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Stereolab and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a Wire print or digital subscription
Issue 465
November 2022
+ The Wire Tapper 60
Issue 464
October 2022
Interview
The pub pianist's grandchild: a conversation with John Tilbury
July 2022
In a coda to the AMM feature in The Wire 461, pianist John Tilbury tells Clive Bell a personal story of the much-admired musical grandfather he never met
Issue 461
July 2022
Issue 459
May 2022
Issue 456
February 2022
Issue 455
January 2022
Issue 453
November 2021
+ The Wire Tapper 57
Issue 451
September 2021
Issue 443
January 2021
Interview
Family affair: Tengger reunite after Covid enforced separation
December 2020
Japanese-Korean kosmische trio celebrate their reunion in Japan in defiance of historical political tensions adding to the pandemic restrictions that kept them apart for seven months. By Clive Bell
