Tom Woodhead
@tomwoodhead
Writer, mastering engineer, will soon sing again in ¡Forward, Russia! I master records for a living, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com
Have you ever read this? Very pertinent to your situation, from what I can remember
Can't see a YEP journo saying Leeds are 'on with' a transfer target without thinking of this
Loved Sam Neill’s Merlin miniseries as a fantasy-obsessed 13-year-old in 1998. You didn’t get anything like that on TV back then
Proof, if it were needed, that Helen DeWitt is spiritually British can be found in the mention of Solpadeine Max in this novel
It's easy to be cynical about publishing, but there's been a real glut of exciting anglophone literature recently, imo. Trying to decide which of these three I read first
Reminded again how much I love this book and how upset it makes me more people haven’t read it. An absolutely unstoppable torrent of voice
The ’rule of tincture’ for flags. Read about it in some newspaper supplement about 15 years ago and for some reason bring it up at every opportunity
Why do I get the feeling this is going to result in more fucking about when trying to buy something online, not less?
Just checking out the cast and crew for the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream I saw last night
Always enjoy walking past this school where the expunged word ‘caring’ is still faintly visible beneath the updated, more brutal motto
Gruev playing like the last man standing out of this lot after you’ve replaced the rest of the team with actual players
Weekend bump for this thing I wrote about having a ‘hit single’ and lots of other things, including the malevolent floor of Leeds venue the Cockpit https://open.substack.com/pub/tomwoodhead/p/forward-russia-twelve-a-brief-history?r=5j9la&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Gerald Murane. This is what old writers should be like imo: cranky and insistent