Archive For The “Sparks” Category

Sparks 11: a reading night

By | November 3, 2010

Photo: Nikki AcottLast night I returned to the boards upstairs at Three and Ten for a reading at Sparks 11, my second appearance at the event. I read a (slightly condensed) version of ‘Branded By The Bush’, a short story I wrote a few years back which …

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Can you compete in writing?

By | May 30, 2010

In running it’s obvious. The first person to cross the finishing line is the winner. It’s neither subjective or objective. It’s logic.With writing it’s a little bit different. The person who judges your work needs to feel some kind of connection, and …

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LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (2010)

By | May 15, 2010

First let me say, you’ll have noticed a certain fondness for eighties music creeping into these pages in recent months? Well this is close to perfection. Take a great drum sound, add megabass and lots of synthesisers. Marvel at the Bowie imitations, gasp as the sound of Sparks bubbles up through the mix. Devo career

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