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AUTUMN | WINTER 2019
What we’ve
been reading:
What’s on
our playlist:
Machines Like Me Andromeda
Ian McEwan ( pub. Jonathan Cape: 2019)
McEwan’s alternative history where Tony Benn’s
Labour party has taken power in Britain and an
initial crop of sentient robots have begun to live
with humans. An existential crises faces one couple
and their machine. Weyes Blood (2019)
From ‘Titanic Rising’,
Natalie Mering channels the
voice of Aimee Mann in her
slow surging songs.
The Smiths: Songs That Saved
Your Life
Simon Goddard (pub. Titan Books: revised ed. 2013)
Whatever you think about Morrissey, the meeting
between him and 18 year old Johnny Marr created
one of the one most fertile creative relationships of
the 1980’s. Each song is lovingly pored over in
Goddard’s book.
Minor Monuments
Ian Maleney (pub. Tramp Press: 2019)
Essay based treatment details the nature, recording
and accuracy of memory in the midst of a family
member suffering from dementia. See page 21
Television Screens
Fontaines DC (2019)
Punk is alive and well and
living in…Dublin. From the
Fontaines album ‘Doggerel’.
Don’t Light My Fire
Otoboke Beaver (2019)
Strangely compelling: shouty,
knowing and frenetic shredding
from Japanese group’s
‘Itekoma Hits’.
Ghosts
The Jam (1982)
From ‘The Gift’; another
call to arms from Paul
Weller.
Selected Poems
Anne Sexton (pub. Orion: 1988)
A confessional voice from a renowned American
poet, detailing the personal life within family,
dreams, art, love, and the imagination.
White
Bret Easton Ellis (pub. Picador 2019)
Enfant terrible is now an angrier older man and
this series of essays based on his podcast series
shows him railing against liberal life.
No mirror was to hand.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie
Your Dog
Soccer Mommy (2018)
Sophie Allison outlines
her self-worth in three
minutes, on her debut
album ‘Clean’.
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