Ian Penman

On the Ramblings today, a simply marvellous new book by @pawboy2 via @FitzcarraldoEds - "Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite" - it's one of my books of the year!!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/cur…

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman — the first true musical impressionist on.ft.com/3Yb6S1t

@dannykellywords "Baffling smoke signals / In a Vatican City..."

Gone totally Tonto now. Celebrating Easter by only playing reggae SINGLES with predominantly yellow LABELS... 🤪🤪🤪🥸🥸🥸

Satie serendipity (ii): rare live performance of Satie's fascinating 16+ hour work Vexations, and it falls on ... #ES3PS publication day! Couldn't have planned it better myself... | southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/vexat…

Satie serendipity (i): Suzanne Valadon is a key figure in Erik Satie Three Piece Suite and there's a long overdue retrospective of her work currently showing at the Centre Pompidou ... | centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/a…

Lovely review of Erik Satie Three Piece Suite in today's Guardian... | theguardian.com/books/2025/apr…

Still trying to get my head around the fact that Al Green and Jacques Lacan shared a birthday. "(Do Not Imagine For A Second That It Is Not Impossible To Mend) A Broken Heart".

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite | 24.4.25

The kites of Alexander Graham Bell, 1895-1910.

'The Voice of Space' (1928) by René Magritte, probably one of the most influential science fiction images of all time

Jacques Rivette, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet e Jean Narboni na cidade de Utrecht após sessão de "Crônica de Anna Magdalena Bach" no ano de 1968

“What was it about this intensely local phenomenon—­straddling Jamaica and the Midlands—­that allowed it to become a musical Esperanto?” Ian Penman (@pawboy2) on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

@jhensonpogue @MattBlack_Matt “This is a ghost story of sorts, written in cycles and loops, loafers and suits, ornery protest and wired-­to-­the-­skies dance weekends.” @pawboy2 on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Harper’s Magazine is a finalist in three categories for the 2025 National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Reread these outstanding pieces: “After the Deluge,” by Gary Greenberg: harpers.org/archive/2024/1… “Lady Day of the Alhambra,” by Ian Penman: harpers.org/archive/2024/0… “Discourse to Self,” by Rosalind Brown: harpers.org/archive/2024/1… “Lovefool,” by Andrew Martin: harpers.org/archive/2024/0… “Liquid Papers,” by Nicolette Polek: harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Incredibly chuffed to be nominated for an ASME National Magazine Award (Reviews & Criticism) for this @Harpers piece on Billie Holiday... | harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

“ ‘I Got a Thing’ has a definite down-home testifying sheen, but this is Gospel as sung by some ragged street-corner character, twitchy and impatient, grit and bad weather all in their face.”—@pawboy2 on George Clinton’s “I Got a Thing,” from the archive 4columns.org/penman-ian/par…

Paul Schrader, interviewed by Ian Penman. Pics by Anton Corbijn. New Musical Express, 2 October 1982. [parts 1-4/5]