Volume 3, Issue 2 – November 2019

Guest Editors: Sarah Raine and Craig Hamilton, Birmingham City University (UK)

Of liminality and repetition, the real and the unreal, of festival and noise, time and perception

“The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on. The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. All during the fiesta you had the feeling, even when it was quiet, that you had to shout any remark to make it heard. It was the same feeling about any action. It was a fiesta and it went on for seven days.” The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Riffs front cover design by Adam Williams.

Sarah Raine and Craig Hamilton – Editorial

Patrycja Rozbicka, Gemma Bird and Amanda Beattie – A Festival of Human Crisis

David Cashman – Ship ‘Fam’, Festival ‘Virgins’ and a Cruise to Nowhere: Liminality and cruise ship festivals

Ana Ramos– Psychedelic Aesthetics and Territorial Agency-ing

Joe O’Connell – ‘The Undiluted Squash of UK Math Rock’: The Performer’s View of ArcTanGent Festival

Louise Barriére – A Journey in the World of Queer and Feminist Punk Festivals

Owen Coggins – Ritual Sacrifice in the Music and Noise of a Metal Festival