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Yep, we've only gone and broken our own rules again here at Beat the Dust. The May edition of BTD will be devoted to the previously unpublished work of the father of all underground writers. You know who, right? If not, you won't have long to wait to find out. The first release will be posted in the next few days. In the meantime, keep writing, keep submitting your work for the June edition and keep on keeping on.
Now showing at BTD TV... 09/05/2008
... new talkies from Six Sentences' Robert McEvily on the book, 6SV1 and Brutalist Tony O'Neill reading 'Johnny Thunders' Corpse.' To view and comment go to BTD TV. To submit a video, read the BTD TV submission guidelines then send us your very best via the submit a video page.
B34 UTY... 05/05/2008
...action poetry by Sister Anna Kiss and other alter egos at LitKicks.
Listen up! 30/04/2008
The April 08 Beat the Dust Podcast has just been posted with poetry from Darran Anderson (icon and the arsonist), a rare piece of flash fiction from Joseph Ridgwell (days when the world was wide), another from Tom Leins (teenage peepshow) and Jenni Fagan's short story (water of leith). To play the April 08 Podcast, download it for later or to give your ears a right old bashing and subscribe to the whole blinkin' series, click here. If you fancy using your eyes as well as your ears, why not check out the fab vids currently broadcasting on BTD TV. But rest assured, as long as there's a Beat the Dust Podcast series, video will never kill the radio star. Buggles, schmuggles! What did they know!
Cultural highlights - April 2008 29/04/2008
Things that inspired me last month:
- Gig: All rise for Hamish Stuart (ex lead singer of the Average White Band) and his band who did a three-night residency at Ronnie Scott's in London's swingin' Soho. Play that funky music white boy...or rather mature older guy-type person.
- Book: 'The Gathering' by Anne Enright. If you like your literature quietly intense and beautifully crafted then this is the book for you.
- Film: 'The Orphanage.' Not since 'The Shining' have I had the bejesus scared out of me quite so much. A Spanish horror film made all the more poignant by the child abuse claims currently being investigated at the Haut de la Garenne care home in Jersey. The Orphanage (backed by Pan's Labyrinth director, Guillermo del Toro's production company) marks out Juan Antonio Bayona as a talent to watch.
- Theatre: 'God of Carnage' by Yasmina Reza. A strong cast (including Ralph Fiennes out-Leonard Rossitering Leonard Rossiter!) grapples masterfully with a play about middle-class hypocrisy, parental irresponsibility and the hate that lives alongside love in adult relationships.
- Websites: litup magazine and everyday yeah.
- Art: Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia' at Tate Modern. An exhibition which takes in Impressionism, my favourite Fauvism, Eroticism and with a pinch of rayography and cinepoetry thrown in for good measure. The collection highlights the parallels between the three artists' work during the course of their careers and, more importantly, the support and inspiration each derived from the other. This idea of a group of like-minded creatives supporting and inspiring each other, is, to my mind, what the literary underground movement should be about. My fear is that it's becoming more about literary cliques and in-crowds. More info on the exhibition here.
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