Books
From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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The Act Of Ruminating: An Interview With Sophie Mackintosh
Following 2018’s Booker longlisted *The Water Cure* and 2020’s *Blue Ticket*, Sophie Mackintosh’s latest book marks the author’s first foray into historical fiction. In an interview with Miles Ellingham she talks interiors, wash houses and the fickleness of memory
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Deformed! Regis On Some Bizzare
*Conform to Deform: the Weird and Wonderful World of Some Bizzare* is an in-depth oral history of the legendary record label and its founder, Stevo Pearce. Techno pioneer Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor – a huge fan of the label – met the book’s author Wesley Doyle to discuss how Some Bizzare impacted popular culture in the 80s
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Dawn Of The Living Dead: Electric Wizard’s Dorset Roots
This June sees the publication of Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard by White Rabbit. Here, author and tQ writer Dan Franklin explains the genesis of the book and gives us a glimpse into the crepuscular Wimborne, the town in Dorset where 'The Wizard' first coagulated into a rural world of biker gangs and drugs...
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100 Formaldehyde Hydro 7″s To Sell: Stanzas From The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass
In the new book by tQ's very own Aug Stone, two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass’ Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping and what it’s like to be in your first band
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Activity Maps: How Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse Revolutionised Art Education
Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse rewired the brains of a generation of art students and turned Brian Eno and Pete Townshend on to cybernetic thinking. In an exclusive extract from his new book *Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave*, Simon Strange explores the ideas behind the course and the strange activities it inspired
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Lust For Life: Tana Douglas Hits The Road With Iggy Pop In 78
In the 1970s, Tana Douglas was rock’n’roll’s first female roadie. In an exclusive extract from her new book, *LOUD: A Life in Rock 'n' Roll by the World's First Female Roadie*, she recalls the 18th birthday she spent fixing Iggy Pop’s sound rig
