Hello everybody!

My new website is up and running at
www.thequietus.com

Our OTF writers' attendence register looks like this:

Simon Price: present!
David Stubbs: present!
L** L*******: present!
Derek Walmsley: present!
John Tatlock (SSS): present!
Taylor Parkes: present!
Neil Kulkarni: present!
Chris 'EIM' Taylor: present!

Up so far we have a great (if slightly pissed up) podcast of Steve Gullick talking about Nirvana, The White Stripes, Jesus Lizard, Nick Drake etc, as well as features on The Fall, The Big Lebowski and John Robb in Berlin.

We'll be putting the following up soon: Chris Roberts on the Joy Division industry, Andrew Mueller on REM, Simon Price on the rebirth of disco, the start of Tommy Udo's coma diaries, Niall O'Keeffe on Les Savy Fav and much more.

Please sign up to the RSS feed and tell your mates about it. Obviously I think this is a really good idea - completely ignoring everything that I've been told by management and marketing and ad depts over the last five years - but it being totally looked over is a bit of a worry.

Cheers.

I'm not quite present yet, but hopefully I will be very soon, once I get my current issues dealt with...

Looks pretty good so far. Just reading the Fall track-by-track as I'm listening to the album. Not every day you get to hear MES sneering at one of your ex-girlfriends...

I'm curious about this Joy Division industry you speak of and how I can get a job in it.

Write to Nike explaining how their shoes really capture the themes of "Atrocity Exhibition" and "The Eternal", in less than 200 words.

To set yourself apart from the crowd, suggest diversification opportunities. A new range of sportswear called "Ambulance Chaser", promoted by black and white photomontages of Pete Doherty staring forlonly down at his weeping track marks, Brian Connolly out of The Sweet looking confused, and Rob Pilatus out of Milli Vanilli looking doomed, yet buff.

You're welcome.

Thanks. However, I'm looking for something a little less soul-gouging.

What's that name about, then?

Do you think it'll, you know, 'wear in'?

Nice one! Well done.

Bookmarked.

The Steve Gullick podcast is hilarious. Whatever happened to Loose Lips Sink Ships?

RSS'ed up.

I think The Quietus is a great name. Though I did assume that this was a thread about some Norse death metal band and ignore it until now.

I don't understand/like the name either, but with that line-up of contributors I'd be visiting whatever it was called.

The Quietus is a fairly old name meaning the definitive account of something, the authoritative voice, the state of being dead or releasing, it is also the name of the massive gun at the end level of Doom, the virus that makes everyone sterile in Children of Men and it makes me think of an egregore of hooded cabalists up to something mysterious. And it has an ironic rock noise reference.

I think it's pretty good but like with anything the name is pretty much the least of our worries. I was just concerned about having something whacky, contrived or punning as the title.

Steve told me that he's doing one more Loose Lips in a year's time. I think Stevie Chick has other ideas; he used to get very depressed about it but Steve's idea of the quality of paper etc meant the cover price was 5p less than what it cost to make. I hope it does make a return it was certainly the best looking magazine I ever wrote for and was up there in terms of writing as well.

Taylor: I never knew you went out with James Brown. </joke> Hope you're alright and why don't you let me and Luke take you out for a liquid lunch soon.

I had such a good time doing that podcast but I may get *slightly* less drunk at the next one . . .

Reed Miller: I know you're joking but the piece will run on Wednesday. We're waiting on some top illustration work to run with it.

I'm interested in some of these editorial meetings I've heard whisperings about, Carcass. It's legitimate drinking. No one can complain.

Does hat mean the John Doran site is dead, carcass?

Anyway, link is going up on my side anon.

Once you do links – as you ought to – remember me...

Glad you got the name sorted out. Now, if you want the site to look really authentic, I can make you a nice Flash popup that obscures half the copy and won't disappear until you take a QUICK SURVEY.

My John Doran site is just for cuts and personal photos and my CV to be honest.

King Mob: Ho ho ho. We'll have plenty of that to look forward to when we launch as a website I'm sure. Scroll down ads for 'Three and Out' featuring Colm Meany and MacKenzie Crook obscuring my wise words on Messthetics.