Harry Bravado

A Story in Five Dials

Matthew De Abaitua — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:03:05 +0000

I wrote a short story based on my assertion that we underestimate the important role of camping in the generation-defining event of Woodstock. The story is called The Sex, Drugs And Rock ‘N’ Roll Were Incidental and is published in the new issue of Five Dials. Download and read it for free.

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The Red Men live performance – Matthew De Abaitua and the Time Attendant

Matthew De Abaitua — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:01:14 +0000

Excerpts from The Red Men, performed and recorded live on Jonny Mugwump’s Exotic Pylon show at Resonance FM. Music and sounds by The Time Attendant. Download for free, pop it in your iPod and enjoy a disturbing science fiction podcast.

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Twenty Eight Versions of Purple Rain

Matthew De Abaitua — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:11:07 +0000

There are twenty-eight versions of Purple Rain on my iPod, all performed by Prince at various times in the last twenty seven years. These twenty-eight versions are by no means every performance of Purple Rain Prince has ever undertaken but they are a representative sample, certainly for our needs; each performance reveals something of his life at that time, and something different about the song. Listening to them all back to back takes about five hours. I will write twenty eight short essays about Purple Rain - here is the [...]

HiLobrow hero: Sun Ra

Matthew De Abaitua — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:31:03 +0000

In praise of the otherworldly genius of Sun [...]

HiLobrow hero: Russell T Davies

Matthew De Abaitua — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:54:39 +0000

My brief appreciation of Russell T Davies, the man who revived Doctor [...]

The Idler and the Kibbo Kift

Matthew De Abaitua — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:22:06 +0000

Just got this from Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler. It is the first page of my essay in the new issue of The Idler, and it looks beautiful.

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Port Eliot festival

Matthew De Abaitua — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:14:20 +0000

This Summer, I will be performing at a few events at the Port Eliot Festival, 23rd to 25th July. As the proud owner of ticket 001 purchased at the first Port Eliot festival, I have long harboured an ambition to perform there. I was booked to talk a few years ago but floods prevented my [...]

The Red Men script handover with Shynola

Matthew De Abaitua — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:25:45 +0000

I met Shynola in the bar of the Phoenix on Charing Cross Road to pick up a copy of their script for The Red Men, delivered within a wrapper embossed with their redesign of the Monad logo. Everything within that wrapper was new to me, as I had no part in the process of turning [...]

Not The Red Men trailer

Matthew De Abaitua — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:12:57 +0000

This fake teaser trailer for The Red Men movie by Shynola makes me want to write all day and all night, to bring more of this world [...]

Grant Morrison

Matthew De Abaitua — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:40:15 +0000

My brief appreciation of Grant Morrison, based on my interview with him in the early Noughties, an interview I spent mostly halfway up a step-ladder and wrapped in the American [...]