Luke Turner
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 15
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Quietus
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- Jul 10, 2026
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The Low Culture Essay: Jon Buckland on Dumb & Dumber | The Quietus (opens the original)
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This month’s subscriber essay looks at a film that presented a far more complex view of male friendship than most buddy films of the 90s “If Harry does something dumb, you drink, and if Lloyd does something dumb, I’ll drink” After seconds of consideration, my wife and I came up with these exhaustive rules to determine, once and for all, which of the two leads from The Farrelly Brothers’ 1994 comedy deserved the title of ‘Dumber’. We chose our respective poisons and, one night early on in our rel
Organic Intelligence LX: Nigerian Alté | The Quietus (opens the original)
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In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Mary Chiney introduces tQ subscribers to a subculture that thrived on the fringes of the Afrobeats explosion If you cast an eye toward West Africa over the last decade, you’d be forgiven for viewing Nigerian music as a cultural giant. The global explosion of Afrobeats, a very polished juggernaut led for many years by the likes of Burna Boy, Wizkid, and Davido, has dominated the narrative, filling dancefloors from London to Los Angeles. At the same time,
Dressed in a Leotard: How Suede Wrote – and Abandoned – a Ballet | The Quietus (opens the original)
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An extract from Rodge Glass' new biography of the second half of Suede's existence reveals how the band recently wrote a score and songs for a ballet, in part inspired by The Fall's work with Michael Clark Band reformations frequently offer thin creative gruel. Even if new material is made, it’s often scattered apologetically at the start of gigs before the price-gouged audience get a dose of nostalgia, a shot in the arm to take them fleetingly back to the heady hormonal years of teenagerhood. S
The Low Culture Podcast: Betty Blue | The Quietus (opens the original)
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In this month’s edition of the pod, Luke Turner and John Doran discuss Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1986 film of lust and mutual destruction Luke was drawn in as a young man by the promise of steamy sex scenes, John, as a teenager, because he thought watching it would make him look like a Gauloise-puffing hipster. But now they are in different stages of their advancing ‘careworn’ years, how do the Low Culture Podcast hosts feel about the 1986 film Betty Blue? While Luke had forgotten just how grim it
In Praise of Occasional Staples: James Brown on the Age of the Zine | The Quietus (opens the original)
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In the early 80s, the Tory government accidentally helped fund a network of fanzines that were vital to the European musical underground. James Brown recalls a time of obsessive creativity currently having a revival Scrolling through instagram recently I came across an account for the Raising Hell fanzine, an A5 hardcore print zine I was close to over four decades ago. It was quite a shock, like a 20th century space-bound time capsule smashing back into earth and its content coming to life. Ther
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