kieran-curran

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Kieran Curran

Kieran Curran is a writer and musician living in Glasgow.

Building Urban Myths

Jimmy Cauty’s exhibition ESTATE makes model villages out of some of Scotland’s best known housing projects – raising questions about working-class housing and the mythologies it inspires.

Come to Milton Keynes

The sugary pop of 1985’s ‘Our Favourite Shop’ by Paul Weller’s The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.

Rock in Opposition

A new book on the experimental group Henry Cow concentrates on their attempts to combine socialist politics and avant-garde music.