HeyJaredPostcards From Berlin
Postcards From Berlin is 'weekly' conversation about trying to make art in a new city, by artist Arthur Laidlaw and musician Edward Bailhache.
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Episode 13 (opens the original)
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Arthur and Viv dive in at the deep end, talking all things social media. This week that means Meta glasses, Brian Eno’s windows startup theme, Spotify drones, how to unfollow people on Instagram and still feel insecure, does keeping a list of your own contacts as an artist make you any better than the big corpos, oversharing, sending letters, touring through peoples’ living rooms, praying for peace in Paris, the artwork and ideas of Keiran Stiles, and Viv’s track ‘Social Medium’ from his upcomin
Episode 12 (opens the original)
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Viv is krank, Arthur is good craic, who’s got the crack? Arthur discovers that he is Irish, endorses cultural stereotypes. Viv discovers that he is an anarchist, endorses violent protest. Ambivalence regarding the lure of cheap LAP coffee at the cost of Berlin’s soul reigns supreme. Arthur doesn’t explain his coffee rules. Viv cleans his piano keys with glissandos. Jörg Krieg provides sartorial inspiration for every artist working through a heatwave.
Episode 11 (opens the original)
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Viv and Arthur are close as they’ve ever been – as the crow flies – since rebooting the podcast. In practical terms that means Arthur’s at the airport, and Viv is in the forest. Viv eludes bicycle woes, Arthur falls into a landscape of possibility, as they discuss the financial perils of creative risk-taking. Bookended by the dulcet dirge of the BER Tannoy.
Episode 10 (opens the original)
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Viv and Arthur approach ten years in Berlin, ten episodes later. We got mosquitoes. We got showering with a bucket. We got banned from the gym. We got morning pages. We got unproductive guilt. We got an elephant that we eating one bite at a time. We got frogmen in a wakeboard park. We got an album release schedule. We got demos. We got a cumulative moment of success and perfection. We got birdsong. We gotta keep buggering on.
Episode 9 (opens the original)
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On Episode 9 of Postcards From Berlin , Arthur and Viv stumble through Arthur’s accidental Withnail and I holiday: a week of sideways rain, collapsing trees, and existential questions about whether Rudi’s nap time is for rest or forced genius. Viv discovers that one modest gig expands to colonise an entire week with rehearsals, merch-related tragedies, and three-hour train odysseys, while Arthur’s lovingly crafted bolognese recipe turns out to be mildly heretical for vegans, redeemed only by mis
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