HIDDEN LANDSCAPES (ILM): the podcast, the patreon, the conversation…

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Hey Mark. Is the book coming out soon? Did a quick Amazon search and couldn't find it (I'm dumb, though).

it's here

(dec 5 is a longstop date, i've been told late oct/early nov: fingers crossed!)

Mark, you have a very nice voice to listen to also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0lKD3KPsc

(thank you for saying so!)

:D

A fuller obit for the great Penny Reel, pioneering reggae writer in the UK: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ites-reel-being-21446722
(not subscriber locked)

post 9: about INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT THE POP TITLES and why it was good not bad (subscribers only since i need more subscribers)

there are two podcasts recorded and nearly ready to go up but my cohost and producer is overwhelmed by the pressures of freelancing currently: of course if you subscribe that will relieve pressure!

(end very good shill)

now available unlocked (and also at freaky trigger):
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hidden-landscapes/2018/10/the-other-kind-of-industrial/

Back with a backlog of updates after a long hiatus (caused mainly by the book actually being published and me taking a bit of a rest after that):

Anyway, here we go (blog posts):
Following on the strike action piece, X Moore's two-part NME feature on the miners' strike
How the PUFFIN CLUB made me a rock writer
A review of Michele Kirsch's memoir Clean
Silver Screen: NME's very strong early 80s film and TV section , and the role it played in the magazine's ethos

And links to podcasts:

On music-writing and the edge of the law
On how to do the best work if you also want to get paid

Oh man, the Silver Screen piece is grebt, mark s! I didn't start reading until 83/84 (after the strike?) but with its Bilko/Barthes/Blimp/Brookie focus it was the section that spoke most clearly to me (particularly since it was far easier to track down the stuff under discussion than eg a Scraping Foetus 12"). Would much rather read an anthology of IP's TV stuff than his LRB elegies, and still aspire to be a member of the silver screen screwball comedy squad :/