Look Back
I've been quiet on here - obviously not on Twitter if you follow me there, that's where I write all my nonsense - because I've been working hard both with the day job and with the edits on the book! Round one finally submitted!
So to celebrate, let's get some music on board. It's the only thing that's sustained me through the madness of this tale. I've been toying with this story for a while. It's a whodunnit because why not? Then the pandemic hit and we are all wearing masks, not touching, having video calls with our grandmas and how would a whodunnit at a wedding when the guestlist is down to thirty with no reception work? Cue Hot Muse Hank. While listening to a great podcast by John Sweeney, HMH told me that I could keep everything as is, but have the characters talk about what happened to them as though it happened years ago, rather than currently.
"You're a fucking genius!" I said to Hot Muse Hank. He made a face and said, "Well try it and see if it's easy."
Spoiler alert - it was NOT easy. You really forget things that were happening last week, let alone twelve nearly thirteen years ago, and then thirteen years from that date. I changed names and forgot to change names all the way through. I changed genders and forgot that I'd done that and read through thinking, who the hell is she? when I meant he. Foolishness. Did Hot Muse Hank help? Did he fuck. He reminded me that while it'd been his idea to take things way back into time, it was also my idea to follow his idea.
Also, let me do an early warning on the content of this book. While it'll have my trademark humour, it's pretty dark. There's a lot of murder, discussions on sexual abuse and assault and stalking. Once I have the book up, you can download a sample to see if it's for you but please be assured that if it's not, I promise you, I understand.
Anyways, the podcast within a book within a whodunnit takes place in 2020, with the murder at a wedding taking place in 2008. With me? For authenticity, all the music tracked is either from last year or 2008 or earlier. If you had seen me having a whole concert to myself doing this, you would agree with Hot Muse Hank that I have lost my natural mind. All good though!
Music a la podcast style:
2WEI – Echoes Sam Sparro – Black & Gold Foals – Like Swimming Tom Mc Rae – A Day Like Today Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver Rufus Wainwright – Not Ready To LovePlacebo – Pure MorningBjörk – Unravel Kate Nash – Nicest ThingZero7 ft Mozez – I Have SeenTom Ashbrook – Klass She Wants Revenge – Tear You ApartRadiohead – Talk Show HostBloc Party – BikoJimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)Guillemots – Little BearTĀLĀ – Cabin Fever Portishead – Undenied MJ Cole – Sincere Aqualung – Good Times Gonna ComeThe Naked And Famous – The Sun Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own Damian Marley – Welcome To Jamrock Kanye West ft Consequence, Cam’ron – Gone Stevie Wonder – I Don’t Know Why Madonna – Candy Perfume GirlDavid Bowie – All The Young DudesTricky – Ponderosa Portishead – Strangers Radiohead – Nude UNKLE – Price You Pay Madcon – Beggin’ Lamb – LullabyColdplay – Spies Paramore – We Are Broken Death in Vegas – Hands Around My ThroatDamien Rice – Eskimo Tom McRae – Walking2Hawaii Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To DoTricky – Hell Is Around The Corner Basement Jaxx – Everybody Mark Ronson ft Daniel Merriweather – Stop MeNew Young Pony Club – Ice Cream Massive Attack – Teardrop Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy Radiohead – Paranoid Android The Ting Tings – We Walk Low – Breaker Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place702 – You Don’t Know Cassie – Me & ULedisi – You And MeJosé González – Killing For LoveSigor Rós – Svefn-g-englar U2 – If God Will Send His Angels Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’ PJ Harvey – The GardenFaithless – Crazy English SummerLittle Dragon – Twice Malcolm McLaren – About Her Bon Iver – Creature FearAir – Photograph Bonobo ft Fink – If You Stayed Over White Lies – Unfinished BusinessColdplay – Prospekt’s March/Poppyfields Alexandre Desplat – Elegy Linkin Park – Hands Held HighBloc Party – KreuzbergVanbur – In Cold LightActive Child – Cruel World
