Please tell me Andrew/Sean feature in your child’s name?
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Was quite surprised at the Dub article. At first I thought he hadn’t mentioned Bunny Lee, then I realised that he is called Runny Lee in the article! Bit strange that probably the most important producer in Reggae history and someone who is integral to the evolution of Dub is relegated to a misname.
Also thought he would mention David Essex’s Rock On which must be the biggest selling Dub record.
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I’m reading the Tony Pike book and honestly finding it hard going. About 100 pages in and it’s basically “I fucked a lot of people and sank a few boats”. Every time it gets a bit interesting it sprints past it to yet another story of how he bedded the most beautiful model in the world. Hope it gets better.
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It doesn’t 
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Swiss Tony Pike
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My friend went on a press trip to Ibiza around 15 years ago with a group of other women journalists. One of the afternoons involved lunch at Pikes. She said TP was a disgusting creep the whole time, making women feel uncomfortable, making pervy inappropriate comments etc. and they couldn’t wait to get out of there.
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I listened to a few chapters of the audiobook one night and, as I often do, fell asleep with the earbuds in. It was a particaulrly broken night’s sleep and I woke up several times to Tony Pike encountering another beautiful woman who couldnt resist him and his massive cock. Was strangely reassuring and I fell back asleep quite easily. Not sure I could manage 25 chapters of it though and gave up the next day.
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Always the one’s you least suspect…
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I do the same with Alan Partridge audio books. Not quite as soothing.
“Lynn, I’m not driving a Mini Metro…”
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Haha indeed …
I stuck with it and finished it, but UV pretty much nailed it there, just a book about bragging how much sex he had, turned me a bit by the end 
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I think what he needed was a writer brave enough to open the door to the more interesting stories and tell him his sexual exploits aren’t that interesting, and an editor with the wherewithal to say that the book will get awfully dull when it’s all about his cock.
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just bought a repress of “dreamies” thanks to this. i love records like this, oddball collage type things with plenty of taped media and found sound textures.
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Just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy about a gang of outlaws/scalp hunters on the US/Mexican border in the mid nineteenth century, struggled with it really because of the prose and the unremitting brutality, went through stages of hating it and wishing for the death of every character in it to in the end being wrapped up in it.
Been thinking about it since I finished it which I guess is the sign of a good book, mainly about the difference between how we live now and how people once lived, a hard life, closer to nature and the planet and without today’s little distractions that keep us from dwelling on mother nature’s/god’s ambivalence/indifference to our existence,
Also the character of Judge Holden is one the most chilling/fascinating/terrifying characters i’ve ever come across in a book.
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Just re started it (after 20y ) again
Along with Le Carre one of the ‘Masters’
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Brian Eno appeared in Father Ted?! I didn’t remember that!
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I’m reading that at the moment as well, and I’m having the same struggles. The prose is hard work but at the same time has a sort of poetic beauty to it as well. Definitely want to finish it but its taking me way too long
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Don’t seem to have enough to read as much fiction as I would like. But I can highly recommend Elif Shafak’s new one, There are Rivers in the Sky
Outstanding writing and storytelling from her as usual.