David Keenan

Issue 400
June 2017

Issue 396
February 2017
Essay
This Is Memorial Device: David Keenan's photo essay
January 2017

The author of This Is Memorial Device, a fictionalised account of post-punk in Lanarkshire, documents his ‘love letter’ to his hometown with a selection of annotated images

Issue 393
November 2016
+ The Wire Tapper 42

Issue 381
November 2015
+ The Wire Tapper 39

Issue 380
October 2015

Issue 379
September 2015
News
New edition of David Keenan's England's Hidden Reverse
New edition of David Keenan's England's Hidden Reverse

New and revised edition of David Keenan's England's Hidden Reverse to be published this November

Issue 376
June 2015

Issue 373
March 2015
News
Volcanic Tongue closing after ten years
Volcanic Tongue closing after ten years

David Keenan talks about the reasons behind the closing of the Glasgow underground music shop he ran with Heather Leigh

Issue 370
December 2014
In Conversation
Off The Page 2014: David Keenan: Crime Calls For Night
November 2014

A phenomenology of transgression in industrial music, by the journalist, author and co-owner of Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue

Issue 368
October 2014

Issue 367
September 2014

Issue 363
May 2014

Issue 361
March 2014
News
Heather Leigh, Bruce Russell, Richard Youngs and more lined up for David Keenan's Alice Zinc label
Heather Leigh, Bruce Russell, Richard Youngs and more lined up for David Keenan's Alice Zinc label

Wire writer and Volcanic Tongue founder starts Alice Zinc to release music that represents a "radically deconstructed tongue".

Issue 360
February 2014
News
David Keenan giving Jandek lecture in Vienna
David Keenan giving Jandek lecture in Vienna

Wire contributor and Volcanic Tongue co-owner talking in Austria as part of day of talks on the idea of success in music.
Essay
Lou Reed 1942–2013: David Keenan: For Lou Reed 27/10/13
October 2013

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. David Keenan remembers him.
News
Cassette Store Day: inaugurated by Volcanic Tongue in 2012
Cassette Store Day: inaugurated by Volcanic Tongue in 2012

Cassette Store Day , taking place later this year, is advertising itself as the inaugural event. In fact, reel stalwarts Volcanic Tongue started...

Issue 353
July 2013
Essay
The Wire 300: David Keenan locates the roots of the UK’s current DIY underground in the anarchic activities of The A Band
February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue
News
The Wire Primer talk on Kosmische Music cancelled
The Wire Primer talk on Kosmische Music cancelled

The Wire : Primer on Kosmische Music talk by David Keenan at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels on Saturday, 26 January has been cancelled due to...