BOOKWORM 2019

LEAVES OF GRASS -WALT WHiTMAN

BOSUN-NEW JUCHE

A LONG WAY DOWN-NiCK HORNBY

THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY-FLANNERY O'CONNOR

HOUSE OF THE DEAD-FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN-CHARLES BUKOWSKi

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD-RiCHARD YATES

WEB-JOHN WYNDHAM

WASP FACTORY- iAiN BANKS

HAUNTED -CHUCK PALAHNiUK

MR SAMMLER'S PLANET-SAUL BELLOW

DISGRACE - J.M COATZEE

IN THE HOUSE UPON THE DIRT BETWEEN THE LAKE AND THE WOODS -MATT BELL

THE END OF ALICE-A.M HOMES

OF HUMAN BONDAGE - W.S MAUGHAM

GO ASK ALICE - BEATRiCE SPARKS

SLEEVENOTES-JOE THOMPSON

PINCHER MARTIN- WiLLiAM GOLDiNG

ON THE ROAD -JACK KEROUAC

THE NOSE/THE CARRIAGE - GOGOL

DECLINE AND FALL - EVELYN WAUGH

COSMOLOGICAL EYE - HENRY MiLLER

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN - PATRiCiA HiGHSMiTH

LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER-D.H LAWRENCE

FOR ESME WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR-J.D SALiNGER 

TIN MAN- SARAH WiNMAN

CROME YELLOW- ALDOUS HUXLEY

GLOW - NED BEAUMAN

PROZAC NATION - ELiZABETH WURTZEL

DANDELION WINE - RAY BRADBURY

BEDROOM SECRETS OF THE MASTERCHEFS-iRViNE WELSH

THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT- JOHN STEiNBECK

METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES-FRANZ KAFKA

WALKING ON GLASS-iAiN BANKS

THE DIARY OF ADAM AND EVE- MARK TWAiN

VILE BODIES-EVELYN WAUGH

RABBIT RUN- JOHN UPDiKE

FOUNTAINHEAD-AYN RAND

RANT- CHUCK PALAHNiUK

SOMETHING HAPPENED-JOSEPH HELLER

THE HEART OF A DOG-MiKHAiLBULGAKOV

GO SET A WATCHMAN - HARPER LEE

RABBIT REDUX- JOHN UPDiKE

LESS THAN ZERO - BRET EASTON ELLiS

ROBINSON CRUSOE-DANiEL DEFOE

AS I LAY DYING-WiLLiAM FAULKNER

RABBIT IS RICH -JOHN UPDiKE

MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS -STEWART LEE

STEPPENWOLF-HERMANN HESSE

PERFUME-PATRiCK SUSKiND

RABBIT AT REST -JOHN UPDiKE

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE-JUAN PABLO ViLLALOBOS

JAMAICA INN- DAPHNE DU MAURiER

HIGH FIDELITY -NiCK HORNBY

LOST BRITTISH SERIAL KILLER-(BIBLE JOHN) -DAViD WiLSON

MRS DALLOWAY-ViRGiNiA WOOLF

LICKS OF LOVE -JOHN UPDiKE

THE DOG CATCHER- ALEXEi SAYLE

GRAPES OF WRATH -JOHN STEiNBECK

 

The few records I bought this year (2019)

VOID MANES/BLUE WHALE- SPLIT 7" WITH BOOK/WHITE VINYL
BIG BUSINESS-THE BEAST YOU ARE/WHITE VINYL
HEY COLOSSUS-RRR -ORIGINAL PRESS 22/250
HEY COLOSSUS- IN BLACK AND GOLD
HEY COLOSSUS- THE GUILLOTINE
USA/MEXICO- MALAMOROS
GODFLESH- POST SELF
COME- DONT ASK DONT TELL
COMANECHI- YOU OWE ME NOTHING BUT LOVE
TAD-QUICK AND DIRTY/GREEN VINYL
HEPA TITUS- BLUE FAT PUSSY
BREEDERS- MOUNTAIN BATTLES.

I SOLD MORE RECORDS THAN I BOUGHT THIS YEAR.

MY YEAR OF BEiNG A BOOKWORM!

-Brief interviews with hideous men -DAViD FOSTER WALLACE
-Catch 22-JOSEPH HELLER
-Let's go play at the adam's-MENDAL JOHNSON
-The sandman-E.T.A HOFFMANN
-He cuts hog-MOLLY HARVEY
-Secret history of twin peaks -MARK FROST
-Exquisite corpse-POPPY Z BRiTE
-Antic hay -ALDOUS HUXLEY 
-The plague -ALBERT CAMUS 
-Recording unhinged-SYLViA MASSY
-The immoralist -ANDRE GiDE
-The fall- ALBERT CAMUS
-When Kids kill - JONATHON PAUL 
-A sense of freedom - JiMMY BOYLE 
-H -CHRISTiANE F 
-The trial - FRANZ KAFKA 
-Evil harvest - ROD COLViN
-Brave new world -ALDOUS HUXLEY
-Last exit to brooklyn - HUBERT SELBY JR
-Exile and the kingdom - ALBERT CAMUS
-Show of violence - FREDRiC WERTHAM
-Venus in furs - LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
-The Double - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Fear and loathing in las vegas- HUNTER S THOMPSON
-Crazy cock - HENRY MiLLER
-Men into beasts - GEORGE SYLVESTER
-Seize the day - SAUL BELLOW
-Dubliners- JAMES JOYCE
-Fahrenheit 451 -RAY BRADBURY
-Dead babies - MARTiN AMiS
-One day in the life of Ivan denisovich- ALEKSANDR SOLZHENNiTSYN
-Adventures of Tom Sawyer -MARK TWAiN
-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - MARK TWAiN
-The crying of lot 49- THOMAS PYNCHON
-The diary of a nobody- GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMiTH
-Notes from underground- FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Closing time - JOSPEH HELLER
-Dr jekyll and mr hyde/Mark heim/Merry men -ROBERT LOUiS STEVENSON
-Franny and zooey -J.D SALiNGER
-Cock and bull - WiLL SELF
-Mountainhead -NEW JUCHE
-A season in hell - ARTHUR RiMBAUD
-The victim - SAIL BELLOW
-Virgin suicides - JEFFREY EUGENiDES
-Tropic of capricorn -HENRY MiLLER
-Girlvert -ASHLEY BLUE
-Fucking Martin- DALE PECK
-Of mice and men - JOHN STEiNBECK
-Great expectations -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Requiem for a dream- HUBERT SELBY JR
-The collector - JOHN FOWLES
-The girl next door - JACK KETCHUM
-The art of loving - ERiCH FROMM
-The rum diary - HUNTER S THOMPSON
-American psycho - BRET EASTON ELLiS
-To kill a mockingbird - HARPER LEE
-Confessions of a mask - YUKiO MiSHiMA
-Oliver twist -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Down and out in paris and london- GEORGE ORWELL
-Fight club - CHUCK PALAHNiUK
-East of eden- JOHN STEiNBECK

If it wasn't for my wife I would have gone to ZERO gigs this year

5/1/18 -Oxford bully- Brickwork lizards-flights of helios I remember hating this support band, I cant remember why but I'm sure if I saw them again, I would hate them again.

20/4/18-Oxford tap social- brickwork Lizards This year I have seen more bw lizards than the dwarves, this doesn't reflect my taste

27/4/18- Oxford Wheatsheaf- Pink Diamond revue perhaps I was playing in other acts tonight as it seems odd to have only seen one band, but of course I cannot see myself.

24/6/2018- Oxford bully- pieranormal fest-Brickwork lizards-undersmile-von braun-lee riley and macarena- rabbit spazz band. I don't think I was the only one confused trying to figure out when the spazz bands set started, or ended for that matter!!!!

10/7/2018- Camden underworld- Dwarves,hip priests, nick oliveri death electric All support bands have to be worse than the main band, that is why I have seen hip priests multiple times this year alone,I will never watch them headline as I hate them, although it is comedy gold to watch panda boy.

10/9/2018- aylesbury theatre- camel Bands should have a limit for how long they are allowed to perform for, anything over 45 minutes and you deserve to be shot on stage.

11/11/2018- Camden black heart- hewhocannotbenamed - hip priests Hewho is a legend, my favourite bit was finding the bassists signature plectrum on the floor and upon reading his name I threw it back on the floor. 


18/11/2018- Camden black heart- blag dahlia acoustic, nick oliveri acoustic if only blag and hewho were on this stage at the same time instead of a week apart, both of them together must be great, and annoyingly I've yet to see it happen!!!!

and so next year I'm staying in!!!!

2018-The year I sold more records than I bought!

Gewalt- limiter 7" (3 nail cover)
Gewalt- wir sind sicher 7" (clear black smoke)
Gewalt- tier 7"
Gewalt- so soll es sein 7"
Big Biz- solid gold metal boxset
Deerhoof- 2017 joyful noise boxset (on this years list due to it not being completed till 2018)
Hey Colossus- RRR (2lp remaster)
Henry Blacker - the making of....
Residents- ghost of hope
Nudist-bury my innocence
Pink Diamond Revue- miss lonely hearts 12"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- skeleton tree
Xordox- neospection
The Ex-27 passports
Die Nerven- Fake (yellow vinyl)
Dwarves- take back the night (white vinyl)
Candy Now- s/t
Firewater- international orange
Liars- 1/1 (clear vinyl)
Teenage Larvae- pelt of the sun 7" (4/21 black)
Hepa/titus- champagne of incest (13/23 silver edition clear vinyl)
Creston spiers-MMXVII
Daughters- you wont get what you want (london fog)
Gewalt- kein mensch 7" (clear)
Lead into gold - the sun behind the sun (clear)
Residents- intruders
Gewalt- manipulation
Dead can dance- within the realm of a dying sun
Lydia lunch- marchesa (gold)
Liars- titles with the word fountain(green)

I don't even consider myself a record collector anymore!!!!
Buying so few records this year did afford me a few new guitars too :)

Another Travis Bean make over.

original red finish.Travis bean TB500MM NAMM 2014 prototype

 

flush mount straplocks are possible on a hollow metal guitar after all.

wood refinished with a brass fiber resin mix , burnished to a lustre and aged with a patina to create a metal finish , paintwork done by goodwood finishing.

All breakdown, and reassembly, plus creative thinking for straplocks, and removal of red paint carried out by BoB http://rpguitars.co.uk/

2017, my shortest list yet.

pissed jeans- why love now, purple wax

melvins- atlantic set, limited to 33 handmade covers

cult of luna- mariner , yellow splatter

melvins - stag- haze edition, 122/200 red/blue

melvins/off/redd kross - 10" , 15/100 red/white wax

swans - great annihilator (crappy reissue)

bellringer- jettison, 49/79

hepa titus/teenage larvae- clear wax, rockyshell edition 13/96

dead -the trilogy box set 18/66

the unsemble - s/t

usa/mexico - laredo , green wax

hammerhead- new directionz white wax 112/200

battle of mice- all your sympathy gone

melvins - walk with love and death, pink/violet wax

qui-the bees 7"- oxblood wax

big biz- blacker holes- flexi 7"

dumb numbers- stranger ep olive/oxblood wax

qui with trevor dunn- purple wax

unsane - fix it 7" clear with black/red splatter, wrench cover

cherubs - heroin man- haze edition, yellow rear cover, clear wax with red/orange splatter

bash 17 comp 10" red/orange split wax 50/50 with black splatter

woven skull- they were pebbles 10"

melt banana / napalm death split 7"

 melvins solo lps set of 4 29/140

melvins love and death mackie edition 10/25

crystal fairy - s/t mackie tour edition 26/34 clear wax

dale crover- fickle finger of fate 430/500 black/red wax

liars- tfcf estuary angler edition  red wax

hey colossus- happy birthday

brutus - burst

made out of babies- the ruiner purple marbled wax

unsane- sterilize red wax

seawhores 4x7" poop 13/50

katastrophy wife- heart on 7"

shorty - fresh breath 10"

diamanda galas- all the way

pere ubu- 20 years in a montana missile silo

firewater- get off the cross trans purple wax

electric wizard- bloody wizard  clear wax

dead rider- crew licks

mark lanegan- gargoyle