The Quietus regenerates! Have a look at our new website

This is an email we thought we’d never be able to send: today, 13 May 2024, you can read a brand-new, fully-functional Quietus website. We’ve spent the last six months working with the good people of 11:11 Studio to design and develop a brand-spanking-new Quietus that, finally, has things like artist pages, a search function, and vastly improved navigation around the different sections. This has a particular bearing on you, the subscribers who have so massively contributed to this happening. Where previously the subscriber-exclusive content for our top Subscriber (FKA Low Culture) and Subscriber Plus (FKA Sound & Vision) tiers was just ordered chronologically on one page, there are now separate sections for your monthly playlists (Opens in a new window), the Low Culture Essay (Opens in a new window), Low Culture Podcast (Opens in a new window), Organic Intelligence newsletter (Opens in a new window)and interviews that accompany each exclusive release (Opens in a new window). If you’re a Cover Price subscriber and want to upgrade into this brave new world, you can do so here (Opens in a new window).

We hope you enjoy the new site and wanted to introduce you to a brand-new feature that’s going to better display our massive archive of editorial. The Portal (Opens in a new window) is a page that changes weekly and will either be themed around a subject or devoted to a particular artist. This week we’re marking the rebirth of the site with a special focus on Survival & Renewal, including archive articles on Shirley Collins, motherhood and music-making, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Judas Priest and Mohammad Syfkhan. We’ve also got a new column called Listen Here, the first instalment of which is live today (Opens in a new window). It’s going to be a regular exploration of sound and the auditory experience of being human (which means, about nearly anything) and the first one is a bit of an introduction to the new Quietus.

We’ll be celebrating the new site on the late May Bank Holiday weekend at John and Mark Pilkington’s Acid Horse Festival at The Barge Inn, near Pewsey, and hope to see some of you there – details of a special ticket offer for us subscribers at the foot of this email.

Thanks again to each and every one of you for your continued subscription to the site. We’d not be here now with a brand new The Quietus were it not for your investment in our editorial through your subs. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think of the new site, either on Steady, by emailing hello@thequietus.com (Opens in a new window) or the socials. 

All the best to you and yours,

Luke, John and all at tQHQ.

Horse! Horse! Acid Horse!

The mighty sun knows it and has cast the skies ablaze in Acid Horse green and purple… signalling that festival time is here! Acid Horse (Opens in a new window) is an amazing three day, two stage festival running 24 to 26 May, featuring the best live music and DJs, curated by us and our friends at Strange Attractor Press, held at the lovely The Barge Inn (Opens in a new window), Wiltshire, an hour away from both London and Bristol. The line up is complete and includes a secret show by one of our favourite artists, events for kids plus live music from UKAEA, Mohammad Syfkhan, Teeth Of The Sea, VALVE, Kavus Torabi, Bulbils and Eric Chenaux, plus DJ sets from Justin Robertson, Steve Davis, Proteus and Sophie Coletta. We’re offering  subscribers 10% off adult tickets and 100% off kids weekend tickets, plus day tickets are now available, either email John on acidhorsewilts@gmail.com (Opens in a new window) or visit the Acid Horse website (Opens in a new window) for more details.