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My adventures in experimental music – by David Keenan

In pieces dating from 1998 to 2015, the ‘rock evangelist’ interviews the revolutionary musicians of the time and recalls the ‘beautiful shambles’ of the first gig he ever attended

Philip Clark
One of David Keenan’s interviewees, the guitarist Derek Bailey, performing in Amsterdam in 1987. Getty Images
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