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Jason Heller’s Strange Stars Launch

Glasgow pals, I’ve got one more event before the end of this month. You may know Jason Heller as the former Hugo award-winning editor of Clarkesworld, writer about pop culture for everyone from Rolling Stone to NPR, or author of Taft 2012 and numerous other short stories. Bringing all this together is Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, his new book about the connection between 70s pop, such as Bowie, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Hendrix, and the science fiction luminaries of the period, such as Stanley Kubrick, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, J. G. Ballard and more. Happily, it combines two of my favourite things — progressive music and SF — and has some delightful anecdotes about, for example, Hawkwind and Michael Moorcock.

All of which explains why I’m so delighted to be helping Jason launch this book next Tuesday 30th October. Join us from 6:30pm at Waterstones Argyle Street, and don’t forget to click the link below to buy your tickets.

https://www.waterstones.com/events/jason-heller-talks-strange-stars-david-bowie-pop-music-and-the-decade-sci-fi-exploded/glasgow-argyle-street

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Music Monday: Record Store Day 2014

I’m going to admit it, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of vinyl. If I can’t carry it around in my pocket – or easily copy it to a digital format – then I’m probably not going to listen to it. However, I do love a well put together release – and, more importantly, independent record stores. So I’ll be sneaking out of Eastercon this Saturday 19th April for Record Store Day 2014 – probably to catch Bridie Jackson and the Arbour at Love Music‘s live band shenanigans – and aiming to pick up one or two of these…

Anathema, At The Gates, Beach Boys, Beans on Toast, Between the Buried and Me, Bis, Botch, Cave In, Clint Mansell, Clutch / Lionize, Conor Oberst, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, David Bowie, David Lynch, Dean Martin, Devo, Dinosaur JR, Dream Theater, Dresden Dolls, Elbow, Fela Kuti, Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Garbage, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Grace Jones, Grateful Dead, Green Day, Hawkwind, Husker Du, Ice T, Insomnium, Johnny Cash, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Joy Division, Katastrophy Wife, Katatonia, Kings of Leon, Kodaline, Kylie Minogue, LCD Soundsystem, Lee Perry, Lemonheads, Luke Haines, Machine Head, Mae, Marc Bolan, Marillion, Mastodon, Matt Berry, Maximo Park, Motorhead, Mudhoney, The Muppet Movie OSR, Neil Young, Nina Persson, Nina Simone, Nirvana, The Notwist, Opeth, Ozric Tentacles, Pet Shop Boys, Pharoahe Monch, Pissed Jeans, Placebo, The Pogues, REM, Radkey, Rammstein, Ray Parker Jr, Rival Sons, Roger Waters, The Stones, Screaming Trees, Sensefield, Shlohmo, Shonen Knife, Sick of it all, Sikth, Songs:Ohia, Soundgarden, The Specials, The Blockheads, Twilight Sad, Twin Atlantic, Ulver, Masters of Misery – Homage to Black Sabbath, Satellite of Love, Xtra Mile 10th anniversary box set, Winnebago Deal.

Unfortunately, most of that’ll have to wait until I win the lottery. So I’ve narrowed it down to the following: