Trupa Trupa

Happy birthday to Nick the Great
the best producer on Mother Earth
we love you from A to Z and even more

#nicklaunay

Yesterday’s concert at Łódź’s Debich Studio was intense, dark, joyful, and packed. Thank you for such a beautiful reception. The concert was filmed by students from the Łódź Film School, and the edit will be handled by Cold War editor Jarosław Kamiński.

Photo: Wojtek Bryndel

Łódź 🖤

What a lovely invitation. Thank you, Agnieszka Holland. See you on Friday in Łódź!

A very special concert is coming up, celebrating the 95th anniversary of Radio Łódź, in the legendary Debich Studio!

1/ I’m really, really happy because my new essay has just been published in Project Syndicate - one of the world’s most influential outlets for opinion and analysis. Among its contributors are, among others, Timothy Snyder, Francis Fukuyama, and Timothy Garton Ash

Amazing - Trupa Trupa's Grzegorz writing in The Guardian about violence, history and David Lynch.

Onet invited me to a long, wide-ranging conversation.
www.onet.pl/muzyka/onetm...

Tomorrow I’ll be a guest at Northwestern University, hosted by Professor Rachel Jamison Webster. It will be my second time meeting her Creative Writing students. The poster was designed by the wonderful Colin Pope.

Recording is underway for Trupa Trupa’s new full-length album.

Video: Tomek Pawluczuk

I've been a fan of @trupatrupa.bsky.social for many years now. Reading what @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social has been doing outside the band is fascinating and vital...

To show the next generation the horrors of the Holocaust, we need to learn from David Lynch | Grzegorz Kwiatkowski How best to portray the evil of Stutthof camp witnessed by my grandfather, asks writer and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

To show the next generation the horrors of the Holocaust, we need to learn from David Lynch | Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

Here is my essay for @theguardian.com, in which I write about David Lynch, The Zone of Interest, the commandant’s villa in Sztutowo, and the ways we talk about violence and history.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An excerpt from Piotr Jacoń’s ‘Bez polityki’ program.
The full episode can be watched on TVN (repeat broadcasts) and online:
tvn24.pl/plus/program...

Ask Greil: January 15, 2026 "The Brutalist," Adrien Brody, the Band, and Lester Bangs

For the past year I've been working with Greil Marcus on his Substack. He's studied rock music and US history for over 50 years, and he's one of my all-time favorite writers.

He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own!

greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...

Trupa Trupa Jolly New Songs!

2xLP down from £29 to £11!

CD down from £14 to £4!

Modern masterpiece of psych/garage/krautrock with brutal perfectly minimal lyrics from poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

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But of course mate! 💥

Our 2025 BBC 6 concert is one of the best shows of the year — according to… BBC!

Thank you @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social

Tomorrow is the day. Trupa Trupa will appear on @worldcafe.bsky.social, America’s most popular public radio music show. Thank you @rahrahraina.bsky.social for having us 🖤

TVN features Trupa Trupa with commentary from our Grzegorz, @simonwilliam.bsky.social of Rolling Stone, Agnieszka Holland, and Piotr Metz. This is a sneak peek. Watch the full feature on TV or on TVN’s YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDie...

thank you Andrew!

#topfives #gigs2025
1. Sparks - Manchester Apollo
2. Robert Forster - Band on the Wall
3. Trupa Trupa - Preston Continental
4. Field Music - BOTW
5. Ezra Furman - Liverpool Rough Trade
Improved health allowed me to go to more gigs this year but then developed tinnitus which impeded 2nd half of year

Mourners in the Top 10 on Onet.pl 🖤

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I’ve already wrapped up my Trupa Trupa year in review, and now it’s time for my academic and writing summary plus plans for 2026. Next year I’ll be visiting, among others, Harvard, Northwestern University, Yale University, George Mason University, Oxford

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Now it is time for new music. We will start recording a new album at the beginning of 2026. We are looking forward to sharing it with you.

Photos: Maciej Olejniczak

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The misty scene in the photos was taken in Los Angeles, the city of Nick Launay, the producer of "Mourners". The fog in Los Angeles appeared throughout the "Mourners" tour. In one of the songs we used a line from "Blue Jay": "There’s a fog upon L.A."

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We recorded sessions for the BBC and "World Cafe", and our music appeared in the film FRANZ KAFKA, directed by Agnieszka Holland. This album and these concerts received the strongest response we have ever had from both audiences and music critics.