even books

We’re liking this new trend of writers getting together with musicians to put on nights at the Oxford Art Factory. They always look a little bemused by the fact that there’s a crowd of cheering 20-somethings in front of them. For their part, the crowd look confused too, unsure whether they should imbibe and get loud, or maintain a level of ‘literary’ decorum.

If you happen to attend the latest of these events - that rebel DBC Pierre’s appearance with Gareth Liddiard from The Drones next Tuesday (Aug 31st) - we implore you to do the former. Have we not given you solid training in the art of bringing literary thinking down to the level of drunken tomfoolery? Did we not shine a light along the path of idiocy? Gently push you out of the safe nest of the library/arm chair/workshop so you could fly like the little drunk, literary lunatics that you are?

Do us proud, Sydney. DBC (that stands for ‘Dirty But Clean’ by the way) would want it that way. He’ll be reading from his latest book, Lights Out In Wonderland, which documents, “a young, disaffected aesthete, philosopher and poet on his journey, by way of sensory overload, to oblivion… via the service entrance”. Bottoms up.