Barrattly Legal feat. Owen Hatherley
This week, Riley, Milo, and Alice join special guest Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) of Tribune Magazine to discuss Barratt Homes: what is the deal with new-build housing in the UK? Why is it of such uniformly bad quality? And why has this become pretty much the only real new construction of homes in this country? Also in this episode: another re-discovered song from Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads.
Owen’s new collection Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism is available from Verso Books here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789-clean-living-under-difficult-circumstances
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Love that only five minutes into it Alice is laughing so hard she's experienced a total loss of self
pedant's corner: isn't the icc from the 90s
The International Cricket Council dates from 1965.
Miley’s KerPlunk analogy was good
I grew up in sa and milos accent is better than mine
Listening to the podcast memento style while holding my polaroid of milo that has "Do Not Ignore His Bits" written under the image
Will listen to this after my Fifa session with Deano
Oh noooooo they're dead :O
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner 2021
Listening to this while building a Barrett home. Compared to other large builders they are one of the least shit. Still would never buy one. On account of them being shit
Those 20 story riverside apartments are for people that want to live in J.G. Ballard's High Rise the same way they want to go to Burning Man¹. Not out of any innate desire, but out of the feeling that they're supposed to live in a fancy riverside apartment and go to Burning Man. I wound up at a party in one (mostly on the balcony trying to dodge the spiky bullet. I didn't see any Ballardian excess through the window though), and it had this cursed, stagnant vibe. Maybe it was just it being 2020; maybe it was my own feelings of cursed stagnation reflected. I did get the sense that these people were all moderately successful in the anonymous parts of corporate media, could find no new aspirations, and were trying to fill that emptiness with a glamorous high-rise apartment... in Queens²... next to the giant Pepsi-Cola sign. [1] Also capital flight and tax dodging. Can't forget those [2] Queens is the best borough; Queens is not glamorous.
*after listening to the whole song at the end Oh so this is what Car Seat Headrest would sound like if they were war criminals
Milo finnally lost the streak of telling me which one this is
I just wish I'd been born in the right generation to have been able to hear the Clogheads