It’s a great selection.
Most of the North and East London boozers would have been personal picks.
Just need to seek out some of the further afield examples.
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I’m back on the Murakami, his writing fits well with my current lockdown/post-lockdown mindset.
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I also finally got round to reading his book about running, seemed relevant given running has kept me sane this last year.
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My favorite Murakami, reading it is like meditation for me
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First Person Singular is pretty amazing. I love Murakami’s short stories. They cut down on his discursive tendencies.
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Perhaps not in the upper echelons of super famous DJs but he’s time served as a working DJ in the trenches for sure. Had some pretty high profile residencies (Cream, Space, Ministry). Had moderate chart success in the late 90s with Dope Smugglaz. Did the NastyDirtySexMusic party in Ibiza for a while in the early 2000s.
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Thanks for ordering Long Relationships, hope you like it…
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Yeah, this is my favourite Murakami. There aren’t many books I re-read but this is one.
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Gotta give a super strong endorsement to this. Musicians just speak with a different level of candor when they’re speaking to a musician of such high caliber rather than some journalist. This books manages to be ultra enlightening but also funny as shit.
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Oh this sounds good…
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My Mrs does some work with people in addiction, mainly young girl addicts and girls with kids their parents ect. Always books and leaflets around but first time seeing this I think it was very helpful to people, more about depression and simply illustrated… Definitely hit you hard after flicking through it…
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Extremely essential book. Re read it for the 2857235th time during the BLM protests last year, amazing how much hasn’t changed.
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I worked with Mat, the guy who wrote and illustrated that book - he’s such a lovely guy. Great to see his book is so far reaching all these years later.
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Wow that’s amazing. It’s a brilliant book and I’m sure it has helped many people. It was my first time ever seeing it and I must admit I flicked through it many times since. Powerful stuff…
Just found a load of my old 80s/90s magazines in a cupboard at my mum’s house. Loads of skate/bmx (RAD mainly), Face and Mixmag. Looking forward to reading them.
This classic Mixmag was on top of the pile. They were testing people’s ability to drive on drugs by giving them a pill/line/joint and getting them to drive round a course with an instructor.
They don’t make magazines like they used to!
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They done a Speed making a come back issue with a big fat line on the cover… Was fun passing it around at partys… My mistake it wasn’t making a come back
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Finally got round to reading Brian Eno’s A Year With Swollen Appendices. Lots of it is just everyday trivia, him cooking dinner/taking the kids to school/fixing his studio etc, but it’s a nice meditative read as well - plenty of thought-provoking observations and insights into creative thinking/processes, plus very casually reported encounters with extremely famous people.
This is pretty good but I’m so ignorant of the history of this music that essentially everything in here could be incorrect or biased and I wouldn’t have the frame of reference to tell. I’m also constantly amused by the author’s blurb on the back that refers to the “definitive biography of the Prodigy”. That’s a book I cannot imagine reading.
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