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The New European: Countdown to a tragedy

Marvin Gaye’s spell in Ostend is one of the most surreal episodes in musical history, but it is also one of the most sombre, says Sophia L. Deboick

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The Guardian, Comment is Free: Will a night in Kurt Cobain’s apartment offer fans religious rapture?

From Graceland and the Chelsea Hotel to Depeche Mode’s Basildon, places hallowed by rock stars are the pilgrimage sites of our times

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Talk: ‘That is walking on hallowed ground’ – Place, Pilgrimage, Identity and Otherness in South Essex Fan Cults

Talk given at Club Critical Theory, Southend-on-Sea, on 4th December, as part of the Theorizing the Other: Migration and Cultural Tourism event, chaired by Andrew Branch

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The Quietus: REVIEW – Dr Feelgood Exhibition/ Lee Brilleaux Memorial Walk

Sophia Deboick heads to Canvey Island to embark on the annual walk in memory of the band’s late frontman and take in the new exhibition of Dr Feelgood paraphernalia

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The Quietus: The Quietus Writers’ 40 Favourite Live Albums – Dr. Feelgood, ‘Stupidity’

The Quietus writers and staff choose their favourite live albums, from murky punk madness to electrifying free jazz, and from the pure sound of rage to sex, death and romance

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Blog: Seaside soul – Discovering Marvin Gaye’s Ostend

An audiovisual walking tour, the Midnight Love Digital Tour, launched earlier this year by Toerisme Oostende, explores Gaye’s time in the town, offering a new view of a music legend and a chance to reflect on the twin issues of pilgrimage and representation in music

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Blog: ‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’ – Deller, fandom and the south east Essex scene

Tomorrow the Jeremy Deller retrospective  ‘Joy in People’ opens at London’s Hayward Gallery. Part of the exhibition will engage with ‘Deller’s interest in the social character of pop music’ and ‘the enthusiasms, rituals and passionate loyalty of fans [which] have all provided the artist with inspiration’

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