A nicely timed work gig meant we were in the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel at the NEC on the night before this walk. As well as the function I was attending (awards for corporate communications, including a magazine called ‘Woundlife’) the hotel was hosting a massive ‘Soul Weekender’ – which meant several floor-shaking all-night discos [...]
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Who knows where the time goes? Edgehill to Banbury
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged 6x, adnams, banbury, bensons, birmingham, cropredy, edgehill, fairport, hilton, marlboro, metropole, nec, ratley, silk cut, wadworth on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Teenage Atrocity park
Posted in References and signposts on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the short time since J.G. Ballard died, there have been many tributes and appraisals of his work. I found Moorcock’s piece in the Guardian very moving, and Simon Sellars’ obituary on Ballardian.com both thought-provoking and, in a sad way, exhilarating.
Anything I can say is just another grain of sand on the terminal beach, but [...]
I knew I’d gone straight when I didn’t go to Tony’s book launch…
Posted in References and signposts on May 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…back in 1999. Tony White (who I’ve known since around 1983) published a story of mine in britpulp! an anthology of ‘new fast and furious stories from the literary underground’ (‘fast-twitch prose that fizzes and spits, narrative with a kick, jump cuts that hurt like a knuckle in the eye…’ said Iain Sinclair). This was [...]
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