seminal album in nu rave / dance punk !! i only have the original digipack cd release, but i've been looking at getting the 2019 lp repress with the lenticular cover too. my favorite track is focker, it has such insane and fun unhinged energy
Live Review: LA Priest at Yes in Manchester 02 October 2023
Words: Andy Hughes
Fair play to him, I’m pretty certain that Sam Eastgate a.k.a. LA Priest is the first person I’ve ever seen start a show from backstage, walking in through the on stage door of the pink room at YES on Monday evening literally playing the guitar. Sure, I’d experienced Mark E. Smith of The Fall starting a show from backstage too, but his likely long-suffering band had already…
Hello, I'm Lady Charles and my debut album is out! Inspired by the glamorous art rock of David Bowie, Kate Bush and Genesis, the Indie fun of Of Montreal, Late of the Pier and MGMT, and the general strangeness of growing up in a world that doesn't really make sense. If you're interested and check it out, I hope you enjoy it. <3
Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to a story and sometimes it's just raging hate mail to the author disguised as a story. But at the end of the day stories really do make a difference to someone. No matter the medium.
One of my favourite fanfictions was published when I was three, and I found it over a decade later after reading the book that inspired it. Reading that fanfiction after was like being hugged by someone I've never met, across time and space. I left a comment under a username I no longer use, and the person who wrote the fanfiction will probably never read it.
A book I read when I was 10 devastated me. I couldn't comprehend the ending. It took me years to realise that the protagonist had to die - there was no other way he could've survived hypothermia, and that sometimes things just end. I think it was my first time realising that bad endings happen in life. That book didn't shy away from telling that to children. The plain, hard truth was there for me to see.
When I was 11, I was rushing back to class after recess but I visited the library for a quick book loan. I didn't actually have a title in mind. But I wanted to read anyways, so I grabbed a random book. Fast forward a few weeks later, and I was reading another book written by the same author. I liked it even more than the first one I had found. Four years later, I drew fanart for it and the author replied to it. It made me so happy I didn't shut up about it for days. Fast forward another two years, and now I've gotten at least two people to read the same book. I've met people online from Italy and France who've read the same book as a child and loved it too.
I still love every story I mentioned. I'm rambling and it's late at night but I've been thinking a lot about stories lately. School's starting again soon and I don't want to go, but I've been thinking of a fanfiction I've been following for the past couple of months and it keeps me going. I really do think that stories are here for us to enjoy and carry with us through hard times. Don't be afraid to write whatever story you have in mind, no matter it be fanfiction or a novel you want to publish. Writing has always been here. Whatever you write will never be the worst someone has read.