Reading these two at the mo.
Both by the same author, and on the same subject but both very different reads.
Both books are about how hip hop reached and developed in the UK but focusing on smaller cites and rural areas rather than the big cities.
Scratching the Surface is an easy and fun read, its really Adam writing about his memories of the time and its a great nostalgia trip even though Adam and I grew up in different cites its amazing how it reveals to much shared experience we would have had around the UK.
Provencal Headz is a heavy read, and hard work for a light reader like me, its probably most suitable for academics. This book is the result of years of research and interviews with folks around the UK. As I said it is a heavy read but I will continue with it (at a slow pace) as its really good .
WG Sebald’s - Rings around Saturn. I’ve never read anything like this before, it’s a stream of consciousness mixing fact and fiction together., all set around walks the author has around Suffolk. You find yourself reading something completely random and having to go back several pages to see how you got there. A bit like an eclectic DJ set actually!
Highly recommend Black Milk by Paul Mendez. Powerful story of a young lad who grew up as a Jehovah Witness and leaves the family as a teenager down to London.
Third part of the Vernon Subutex trilogy by Virginie Despentes. She wrote/ directed Base Moi, brutal female revenge film. Ace. TV series looks shit tho so havet watched it
Both Secret DJ books. Like a (very) long letter from a mate who went off to realms i couldnt/didnt/wouldnt
Jockey Slut Weathers tribute. Comforting / affirming / nostalic and forward thinking at the same time
the Andrew Weatherall tribute book by Jockey Slut or something really geeky and technical called: the Computer Music Tutorial if you’re into production.
I really enjoyed: Kitchen Confidential, I love Bourdain
Yeah I get not being into Comendatore it’s a tough one. I think this is the joy of his writing. I just could not do Dance Dance Dance or Norwegian Wood but has never put me off his writing.Thanks for the tips i’ll check them out.
Norwegian Wood is really good just takes a while to get going. Commendatore earned the rare distinction of being something I stopped reading in the middle, really did not hold my attention.
Something ultra melancholy and poignant in reading a book about the place in which you currently reside but can only experience in a very curtailed way
