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Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer and broadcaster. She writes on underground and experimental music, and is a presenter on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction. Her first book, The Foghorn’s Lament, was out in 2021 on White Rabbit Books. Her next book Clay: A Human History is out in 2024. 

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‘A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea’ Brian Eno ‘As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests’ John Higgs ‘A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music’ Cosey Fanni Tutti What does the foghorn sound like? It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you. It is a booming, lonely sound echoing into the vastness of the sea. When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn’s colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity and the landscape of coastlines around the world, from Scotland to San Francisco. Within its sound is a maritime history of shipwrecks and lighthouse keepers, the story and science of our industrial past, and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks, blasting out for coastal raves. An odyssey told through the people who battled the sea and the sound, who lived with it and loathed it, and one woman’s intrepid voyage through the howling loneliness of nature.

The Foghorn's Lament – Jennifer Lucy Allan
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Forthcoming events

Saturday 10 August 2024

Laura Cannell + Arianne Churchman + Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ)

£16 £14 Advance £8 MEMBERS

Past events

[MODERN RITUAL] - CHARLES HAYWARD + LAURA CANNELL + HOOFUS + JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN + LUKE TURNER

[MODERN RITUAL] II - Rhodri Davies + Laura Cannell + Pete Flood + Sarah Angliss & Caroline Radcliffe + Luke Turner & Jennifer Lucy Allan

Heather Leigh + Simon Fisher Turner + Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ)

Kate Molleson 'Sound Within Sound' book launch – w/ Peggy Seeger (live) + Siwan Rhys plays Galina Ustvolskaya + Q&A with Jennifer Lucy Allan