The View Issue of Beat the Dust (the third of six this year) is devoted to interviews, previews of new work and instead of reviews – which would have been the obvious route to go down given the theme – we’ve plumped for lit crit-type opinion pieces cos they tend to have a bit more substance.
BEAT THE DUST'S VIEW ISSUE, MAY 2010
Author:
Ben Myers and Mike Title of Dead Kids
Ben Myers’ Top 5 Protest Songs:
1. Do They Owe Us A Living? - Crass 2. Can You Do Without? - The Meters 3. Vertigo - Screamers 4. Room Without A Window - Operation Ivy 5. Batty Rider - Buju Banton
Mike Title’s Top 5 Protest Songs:
1. Whitey To The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron 2. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? - Suicidal Tendencies 3. Fuck the Police - NWA 4. What's Goin On - Marvin Gaye 5. A View to A Kill - Duran Duran
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
Ben Myers interviewed by Mike Title of Dead Kids
Excerpt:
Ben Myers is a novelist and journalist. Mike Title has been the raucous frontman of bands including Dead Kids and Sona Fariq and has published his fiction. The pair have been friends for over a decade, after Ben first interviewed Mike for a magazine. Ben’s new novel, Richard, about the life and disappearance of Manic Street Preachers’ guitarist, Richey Edwards will be published later in 2010 by Picador. Dead Kids’ debut album Dark Party is available to download for free here.
Beat the Dust decided to reverse the roles of interviewer and interviewee and asked Mike to interview Ben...
1. Death Letter - Son House 2. Poor Black Mattie - R.L Burnside 3. Going Down To The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 4. It's Bad You Know - R.L Burnside 5. Ball and a Biscuit - White Stripes 6. Tupelo - John Lee Hooker 7. Richland Woman Blues - Mississippi John Hurt 8. Me And The Devil - Robert Johnson 9. Crow Jane - Skip James 10. Jack Of Spades - Mance Lipcomb
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Zola and Me
Excerpt:
Simon Crump (author of Neverland: The Unreal Michael Jackson Stories, My Elvis Blackout, Monkey's Birthday and Twilight Time) has been obsessed with Zola since his dad gave him a copy of Germinal to read when he was a kid. Simon’s now writing a book about his obsession. Here’s a taste of what we can look forward to...
1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron 2. Blowin’ In The Wind - Bob Dylan 3. People Have The Power - Patti Smith 4. Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation - Tom Paxton 5. War - Edwin Starr 6. Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers 7. Fuck Da Police - NWA 8. Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Novel extract
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Wounding
Excerpt:
Heidi James is the author of the novel, Carbon. Here’s an exclusive extract from her forthcoming novel, Wounding...
1. New York - Sex Pistols 2. 53rd & 3rd - The Ramones 3. Venus - Television 4. Union Square - Tom Waits 5. The Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five 6. Subway Train - New York Dolls 7. Slaughter On 10th Avenue - Mick Ronson 8. New York, New York - The Dictators 9. Goin' To New York - James Blood Ulmer 10. Harlem Nocturne - Lounge Lizards
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
Echoes & Reverberations
Excerpt:
Steve Finbow, inspired by a paragraph in Maurice Blanchot’s The Writing of the Disaster has created cut-up-style lit crit piece...
Matthew Coleman and Nicole Hamilton’s Top 10 “sounds and songs to move and inspire”:
1. Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2. Soul And Onward - Do Make Say Think 3. First Song for B - Devendra Banhart 4. Sheila - Atlas Sound 5. Falling Star - Francois Hardy 6. There Is A Light - Great Lake Swimmers 7. New Town - Life Without Buildings 8. All I Want Is You - Barry Louis Polisar 9. I'm Walkin - Fats Domino 10. In the Flowers - Animal Collective
"It's those little glimmers, shining out from the ordinary that one should be on the watch for."
A previously unpublished photograph from a new project entitled Meditations on Nature created by the collaborative nicole&matthew, a new initiative involving Matthew Coleman and his fiancée, Nicole Hamilton.
1. L.A. Woman - The Doors 2. Lookin' Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival 3. Peaches - The Stranglers 4. The Seed 2.0 - The Roots 5. In My Secret Life - Leonard Cohen 6. Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin 7. Conditions (I Just Dropped in) - Kenny Rogers 8. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 9. In The White Room - Cream 10. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
The Starving Artist Motif as a Life Philosophy: Literal and Psychological Starvation in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger
Excerpt:
In Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, the author’s protagonist, who at least partially represents the author himself, reflects the Dionysian in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy through recognizing the intrinsic relation of suffering and joy in the creation of art in the quest for a unifying sense of oneness...
1. American Soldier - Mark SaFranko 2. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman 3. The Luck Of The Irish - John Lennon 4. Galveston - Jimmy Webb version 5. Hell's Half-Acre - Robbie Robertson
Steve Hussy’s Top 5 protest songs:
1. Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys 2. My Part - Minutemen 3. This World Is Too Crowded - Show Business Giants 4. Heaven Is The Dust Beneath My Shoes - Nomeansno 5. Thinkin' Some More - Cheater Slicks
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
Mark SaFranko interviewed by Steve Hussy
Excerpt:
With the impending launch (1st June 2010) of Mark SaFranko’s third Max Zajack novel, God Bless America, a new issue of lit mag, Savage Kick and an updated Murder Slim Press (MSP) website, we asked head honcho of MSP, Steve Hussy to interview Mark SaFranko...
1. 2046 - Shigeru Umebayashi 2. In the Mood for Love - Shigeru Umebayashi 3. Ashes of Time - Frankie Chan 4. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Peer Raben 5. Eros (Wong Kar-Wai segment) - Peer Raben 6. Querelle - Peer Raben 7. Katzelmacher - Peer Raben 8. Horror of the Malformed Men - Hajime Kubaragi 9. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief - Juro Kara 10. Search and Destroy - The Stooges
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
Walls of Berlin: Urban Surfaces - Film – Art
Excerpt:
Here’s a preview of Stephen Barber’s new book on film, memory and urban surfaces focused on Berlin. It’s forthcoming in 2011...
1. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers 2. 25 Minutes To Go - Johnny Cash 3. Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone 4. We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger 5. Fight The Power - Public Enemy 6. Road To Peace - Tom Waits 7. The Partisan - Leonard Cohen 8. Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke 9. Christ For President - Wilco & Billy Bragg 10. Cunts Are Still Running The World - Jarvis Cocker
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Susan Tomaselli on Gil Scott-Heron's The Vulture
Excerpt:
It's a shame that Gil Scott-Heron is still best known for that track on his 1971 long-player Pieces of a Man: “You will not be able to stay home, brother / You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. / You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, / Skip out for beer during commercials, / Because the revolution will not be televised"...
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