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Drumming with Dead Can Dance and Parallel Adventures
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My memoir, covering my time with Dead Can Dance (1982-90 + 1995), and then the parallel paths of my solo and collaboration projects whilst continuing to follow DCD's progress as a 'fan with a backstage pass' (1997-2021).
A beautifully produced hardback edition to grace your coffee table / bookshelf; published by Red Hen Press (Pasadena, CA) on 15 November 2022.
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"Great book... one of the best memoirs I have read."
Aaron Badgley, Spill Magazine
"Amazing feedback from the audience - everyone needs to buy the book. It's a cracking read."
Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2023
"Lively and entertaining... sterling levels of recall... A voluminous, lengthy, extensive five stars"
John Lloyd, Fox Books, Leicester, UK
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"A thoroughly absorbing memoir, filled with fascinating detail"
Joanne Harris, author
"Really good book about a band that really was unique... One of the most informative, without gossip or grudges books on music that I have read."
Dan O, Bookseller, NetGalley
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Drumming with Dead Can Dance and Parallel Adventures - Addendum
I effectively finished drafting my memoir some two years before it was published, and after clocking up another year beyond publication, some more 'parallel adventures' had occurred.
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I therefore wrote a kind of 'addendum' which was posted online by post-punk.com in January 2024, with an introduction by respected writer/curator Frank Deserto.
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Drum the River
My first novel, waiting in the wings for the right publisher to come along and snap it up!
In a superstitious rural community in early 19th century England, an eight year old girl goes missing. As a last resort, her distraught parents turn to the local 'cunning man' who counsels that they must 'Drum the River' - a ritual to reveal the whereabouts of a drowned body. The unexpected outcome leads the family into the world of a storyteller and musician, and a peripatetic band is born which travels through the East of England, performing traditional songs, telling the local tales, and unwittingly being drawn into a world of myth, folklore, spells and magic.
Mind and Motivation
A psychology/self-help book written/compiled by my long-time friend Lisa Tenzin-Dolma (see also 'Tenzin' under 'Guest Contributions' in the 'Music' section) in which she interviews subjects whose work she admires to exemplify the characteristics examined in each of the nine chapters.
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My interview can be found in Chapter 4 as her exemplar for 'Evolution'. Other of Lisa's subjects include Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis, micro-artist Willard Wigan, and author Joanne Harris.
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Published in 2008.