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BrainBomb

The Axidents guitarist, Flembo (aka Mark Fleming) is following in the footsteps of John Lydon, Adam Ant, Mark E Smith, Hugh Cornwell and Arturo Bassick - he has written a book. His novel, BrainBomb was officially published on Thursday 25 June by Chipmunka who promote writing about mental health issues.

BrainBomb is set in Edinburgh, and features sex, drugs, punk rock n roll, violence and a lot of those words Bill Grundy didn't like. Based on some of Fleming's own experiences, BrainBomb is about a young gadge who is diagnosed with depression in the 80's, eventually flying off the rails to wind up in psychiatic hospital. There's also a lot of background, including flashbacks to magic mushroom trips, the Clash's White Riot tour, the mod v punk riots (Princes Street), biker v punk riots (Forfar), as well as the post-punk scene when local bands practiced and got mashed in the basement bowels of the old Regent cinema. And if all that wasn't enough, there are fantasy sequences where the lead character does a spot of imaginary time-travelling and finds himself a cleaver-weilding member of the Tongs in the Gorbals in the 50s, or in the middle of a Nazi riot in Nurembeg in the 30s, or up to his knees in gore during a medieval battle.

One critic said: "Fleming's debut novel is lurid. It's a bang bang bang mish mash which steams along at a million miles an hour. The astonishing thing is that this novel is seventy thousands words. The pace is so ferocious it reads more like twenty thousand".

You can order it direct from Mark for £10 - drop him an email at ninewoodbine@hotmail.com. and he'll arrange to hand it over, in person, or at an Axidents gig. He'll even sign it for you.

Birthday Shenanigans

It's that time of year again (almost) And I plan to celebrate in the best way known to man - with a Curry!! - My Birthday is on a Monday so I wiil be celebrating on Saturday the 22nd (August). Everyone is welcome but let me know if u want to come along just so that I get a rough idea of numbers before booking a table. Get yer pants in the freezer now!! :o)

Sad Society - Religion - Henry's Cellar Bar 28 02 09

The Sads on Top Form!!!!

Hotter Than Hell (You know it is)

Considering the quality weather of the last couple of days combined with my beaming red coupon and arms - this is quite appropriate ;0)

Strange flying Octopus spotted on Blackford Hill

Gigs this weekend

Sad Society and Chinese Jocks at Henry's Cellar Bar last night (this morning)

Big thanks to everyone who came along last night and especially to those who hung around for the late chinese jocks show - You know who you are and it was very much appreciated :) There is also a cheeky little video clip of The Sads performing 'War Correspondent' - Picture is dark but sound is good.

More Clouds :)

Cloud

Simply Amazing!!

This is

Gig

Pip

Gig Reminder - Tonight

Groovy weather today for Ducks and Trees

Biffo The Bear

Things have been going slow this year but as usual there has been some bad luck: Having to reinstall Windows and losing all the demo's I had (serious hours of hard work down the drain again) But hopefully there will be a release by the end of Summer. Meanwhile you can check out a demo on the Biffo Myspace site: HERE

The Jocks are back at work

After over a month of doing bugger all - Ears are a buzzin but thankfully no blisters!!

A wee piece o PISS

Geordie Jumpers :D

Happy Birthday

To Rab_Balfour who celebrates his 39th today - The Big one next year!!