What's New?
What's been happening and what is coming...
An update from me for those reading; what’s been happening and what’s coming.
Planet Of Sound has featured on Slack City Radio since last December and in March this year it evolved into a two hour music and culture show featuring a guest in conversation each episode. The fifteenth episode will be broadcast in August. I’m working on getting one of my favourite contemporary writer’s on this autumn, who’s work has recently been adapted for television.
Guests so far have included David M Allen who has produced more albums by The Cure than anyone else, including landmark album Disintegration. Music artists Annika Henderson AKA Anika and Penelope Trappes, award winning author and judge of this year’s Working Class Writers Prize, Clare Whitfield, debut novelist Ania Card and Mark Davyd, CEO of the UK's Music Venue Trust on a mission to protect grassroots venues, the breeding ground of your favourite bands of all time and tomorrow's big acts.
Planet Of Sound was originally the name of a music ‘zine I ran and where my journey began in music. I’ve previously written about ‘zine culture here on Substack over a three part feature.
Following the radio show, which continues of course, comes Planet of Sound: In Conversation, launched just last week, a podcast featuring a sole focus on a unique special guest each episode. Planet Of Sound: In Conversation features guest artists, musicians, writers, producers and creatives of multiple disciplines across assorted themes. Find it at all your favourite podcast services and take a listen.
I’m also still working on that novel when I find the stolen moments to do so around the long and demanding hours of full time work, life admin, grocery shopping, hoovering, cleaning the bathroom, walking the dog, paying taxes, having a moderate social life. I’ve still yet to review notes my New Writing South writing group gave me on my latest short story over a month ago. The limited time to write is very frustrating. Many of us spend so much of our time, the majority of our waking hours, ensuring we have a wage.
I’ve had no time for my music projects what so ever. Returning to full time work has given me a sense of security, but limited time to do what I truly love; writing, composing and producing.
In case you missed it, my short story Let The Good Times Roll was dramatised for radio and is now available here, on Apple and other places. Please don’t use Spotify, a company that cares little for the artist ecosystem and who’s CEO funds military technology companies with its profits.
As for Substack, well more will come. Bare with me, it’s a case of working in the stolen hours and, as they say, burning the candle at both ends.
I’ll be making Substack free again for the foreseeable. To those that have paid up until now, I want to say I’m extremely thankful for your support and your readership through a very challenging time where my creativity and compulsion to write has seen me through.
Check out everything I’m up to here or on social media links.
Thanks for reading. A follow on social media, or an article like here on Substack, is hugely appreciated. It’s hard to sometimes find acknowledgement, acceptance or any form of recognition with all the noise out there these days, and especially if your not in the in-crowd.
All the best.