Archive For The “Nick Cave” Category
Nowadays some parents-to-be send pictures of their foetus as Christmas cards. So here’s a Valentine’s greeting to you all: me & my book baby ready to go to the doctor aka as literary agent.I met the agent last week in his office, and he said my book fo…
Adjectivepublishable (comparative more publishable, superlative most publishable) 1. Able to be published.I’ve spoken to an agent who’s read my English novel, REPLACING ANGEL. It’s publishable. That’s the first thing he told me.Publishable, but not q…
Beneath this curmudgeonly exterior beats the heart of an unrepentant if slightly ancient, romantic, with a penchant for the kind of grandiloquent nonsense so beloved of our old friends Echo & the Bunnymen. Indeed it was only days ago, that trudging along the Brighton promenade in the relentless drizzle I was torn between roundly cursing 
Concocted by Serge Gainsbourg, the most exalted potentate of lust, this bizarre fantasy detailing a (the?) middle aged lothario’s affair with a teenager oozes priapic zeal, laced with a sense of humour that can only be described as goblinesque. Unusually for a concept album from this era the music has dated astonishingly well; produced and 
