Wayne Gooderham
@wbgooderham
Freelance writer. Blog about books ( & ). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. All links to all bits:
Getting into swing o things a bit more now (more or less) & am looking forward to playing @ Walthamstow Trades (as Down For You Is Up) next month… wegottickets.com/f/24588
Well, The Housemaid was pretty awf, with some terribly handled exposition, but! did include (bizarrely) a bit o Baz Lyndon, so… #Dogshitndiamonds
When you break a string on the morning of a gig and then keep breaking the replacements the important thing is not to PANIC
Playing (as Down For You Is Up) at the Spice of Life this Sunday… wegottickets.com/f/21935/
Bought this ed - with a Pan-like figure on cov* and an intro which bangs on about brilliance of Great God Pan, and yet… * do concede cov illustration is also of a “white person”. But. Still.
They’re great. Say what you want about the 80s, but probably the best decade for covs. (It took me YEARS to get hold of all the 80s Bellows.)
Could. Not. Agree. More. (I would not have begged my parents to get me the current ed - though they would probably have been more lenient!)
Nice ed (spotted in Skoob Books - but I forget to check the cover artist)
Pleased to see the long conversation conducted in *French* between Hans n Claudia is translated in the appendix - rather than just leaving it completely untranslated (Lowe-Porter) or translating it with no mention that they’re actually speaking French (the otherwise brilliant Woods). Anyway…