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I believe this is The Joker, possibly from the upcoming sequel.
Stimulating interview raising loads of great points and telling some colorful yarns. Big congratulations; hope to get hold of a copy of your book soonGave Morrissey a wee mention in this interview with me about my novel. It went up online today in the Glasgow Review of Books.
FUTURE GLASGOW: Graham Rae On 'Soundproof in Satellite Town' and more. - Glasgow Review of Books
Interview by Chris Kelsoglasgowreviewofbooks.com
Thanks. If you live in the UK, I am including a link here. If not, just Google it, you should find it easily enough in Amazon USA or elsewhere. Had problems with the Amazon search engine. Useless corporate vermin.Stimulating interview raising loads of great points and telling some colorful yarns. Big congratulations; hope to get hold of a copy of your book soon
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Morrissey & The Smiths Tribute - Vol. 1
In November 2016, my dear friend Jennifer Moon Kelly lost a long battle with colon cancer. Days before she passed, she got to meet her hero and mine, Morrissey. He was a true gentleman and treated heron.soundcloud.com
Shared at the time (2016/17), but repeated here as music has been reposted on Soundcloud.
FWD.
I'll hopefully get my hands on a copy sometime soon though not from Amazon. Used to take a keen interest in Scottish writers but there's been too much pandering to Nicola Sturgeon approved predictable shite in the last ten years. Creative Scotland has a lot to answer for.Thanks. If you live in the UK, I am including a link here. If not, just Google it, you should find it easily enough in Amazon USA or elsewhere. Had problems with the Amazon search engine. Useless corporate vermin.
I'm more destructive Scotland. The book is available in various venues, or even direct from the independent publisher:I'll hopefully get my hands on a copy sometime soon though not from Amazon. Used to take a keen interest in Scottish writers but there's been too much pandering to Nicola Sturgeon approved predictable shite in the last ten years. Creative Scotland has a lot to answer for.
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Morrissey & The Smiths Tribute - Vol. 1
In November 2016, my dear friend Jennifer Moon Kelly lost a long battle with colon cancer. Days before she passed, she got to meet her hero and mine, Morrissey. He was a true gentleman and treated heron.soundcloud.com
Shared at the time (2016/17), but repeated here as music has been reposted on Soundcloud.
FWD.
I checked that Amazon page. Astounding recommendations -Thanks. If you live in the UK, I am including a link here. If not, just Google it, you should find it easily enough in Amazon USA or elsewhere. Had problems with the Amazon search engine. Useless corporate vermin.
I'm in Ireland, where independent bookshops still exist, including Books Upstairs in Dublin, run by the people who edit Dublin Review of Books.
No, I'm not going on tour, sorry, nobody knows who I am and I am skint. Chuckling. If you know anybody who would review it, that would be great, cos they're very hard to come by. Would love to go back to Ireland again, though. Not been there since I drove Arab Strap to a gig there in Dublin in the mid-90s or so. Ironically, they played on the same bill as a Smiths tribute band.I checked that Amazon page. Astounding recommendations -
Praise for Soundproof in Satellite Town
“SIST should be required reading for every disenchanted zillenial, aimless millennial, and burn-out gen x-er across the country. The most criminally underrated writer (and novel) since the inception of ink on paper.”
- Chris Kelso, author of The Black Dog Eats the City
"Mr. Rae's language vibrates and buzzes from the page like a Scots cyber-sabre, smelling like spilled beer and burnt wiring."
- JG Thirlwell
"If Henry Miller decided to rip off both William Gibson and William Burroughs, it might read like this gritty sexplosive novel set in the 22nd century."
- Richard Kern
"Soundproof in Satellite Town crackles with the wit, (unintentional) wisdom, and sheer, unadulterated energy of great rock ‘n’ roll. Lester Bangs, I think you’d be proud.”
- Jim DeRogatis
"Graham Rae makes heterosex sound quite appealing. Which is of course the test of any great fiction writer."
- Mark Simpson
“New writers, like Graham Rae, will always shock + delight a new generation of readers.”
– JG Ballard
The story reminds me a little of a smart book covered her last year -
Author Lars Iyer extols roles of Morrissey & co. for Manchester culture in My Weil playlist for The Quietus (September 2, 2023)
A philosopher-novelist called Lars Iyer has a new book out that's set in Manchester, called My Weil. The publisher describes the novel as 'a scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a...www.morrissey-solo.com
Are you going to tour and read? I'm in Ireland, where independent bookshops still exist, including Books Upstairs in Dublin, run by the people who edit Dublin Review of Books.
Being set in the 22nd century probably rules out Smiths, Morrissey details, but we won't hold that against it!
Brilliant!