33: The No Tags book is here!

We trailed ‘big things coming’ on our last episode, and
would you look at that – the big thing has come. Or is available
for pre-order, at least.


That’s right, it’s our first ever book. Titled No Tags:
Conversations on underground music culture and designed
by All Purpose Studio, this hefty tome (350+ pages) compiles
every interview to date on No Tags, edited
transcripts of the best of Chal and Tom’s non-guest
conversations, and specially commissioned
essays from four of our favourite writers and thinkers:
Eris Drew, Chris Zaldua,
Henry Bruce-Jones and Ray
Philp. The book is available to pre-order now.


We’ll also be launching the book with our first live show
in London on 3rd December, taking over Ridley Road
Market Bar. On the night we’ve got Kode9 giving
his new talk on Sonic Warfare for the first time in the UK,
celebrating a new release of his seismic 2009 book about acoustic
force and the ecology of fear.


We’ll also be recording a live episode of No Tags with everyone’s
favourite breakfast host Flo Dill, morning
doyenne of NTS Radio. Plus we’ll have music from Jennifer
Walton – not only one of our favourite artists, but the
wizard behind the No Tags theme tune. Entry is free, simply hit
‘Interested’ on the event page.


There is also a podcast this week. We introduce the book before
getting into some of our favourite recent releases (The Cure,
mediopicky, Dubbel Dutch and Toma Kami) and dissecting the
long-awaited debut album by Two Shell. There's also some film
chat (Lords of Dogtown, Kneecap, The Florida Project) and a
debate over the key historical entries in the Florida Film canon.
We are confident that No Tags is the only podcast where Toma Kami
and Wild Things get discussed in the same breath – and if that
doesn’t count for something in 2024, what does?


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