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Versifier Martin Stannage getting things started in the literature tent.
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This is Seb Clarke bring the horns, while the security guy looks bored.
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There were these two crazy performance artists dressed like medics, clowning and dancing all over the place.
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I love how this one looks like an L.S. Lowry painting. You can see that the festival was basically a party on a muddy building site.
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Before and after?
I had a good time, though I took a stupid route to the site and was menaced by a marauding band of scallies haunting the canal. Spent most of my time in the literature tent, where I heard David Barnett read his great short story "What Would Nite Owl Do?". It had been published in the sadly departed All Saints No Sinners but I missed it somehow. Anyway, I'm reading the amazing Watchmen for the first time right now, so it was weirdly serendipitous to hear a story that referenced those characters. I also admired the insanely cool cover for the Pulp Fiction-themed editon of Transmission which should be out soon.
Later I saw 2 Days in Paris at Cornerhouse, which really is funny despite often being a huge Woody Allen rip-off (or should I say tribute?) It has this great scene with a cat... I was actually howling with laughter.
2 comments:
Thanks for the mention! Glad you enjoyed it. You were the person I spoke to just after the reading, right?
David Barnett
Yes! That was me.
I have since finished Watchmen and am trying to figure out what piece of the Alan Moore oeuvre I should read next... V for Vendetta? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Hmmmm.
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