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A band featuring Mark E Smith's ghost writer, an ex-member of The Fall and Bill Ryder-Jones' guitarist are genuinely great and commendably angry, says Fergal Kinney. But should they really be punching in and down instead of out and up?
Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers
Dale Lately submerges himself in the world of Austin Collings' The Myth of Brilliant Summers — a literary funeral pyre for rose-tinted spectacles of youth spent and misspent in the North —a once-real universe rendered in underpasses, morning hues and uneven teeth