A Story in Five Dials

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

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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Port Eliot festival

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

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 teaser trailer

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 [...]

Download The Dinner Party Wars by Matthew De Abaitua and West Norwood Cassette Library

The Dinner Party Wars by Matthew De Abaitua and West Norwood Cassette Library

For a limited time, my collaboration with the West Norwood Cassette Library is available to download free from Weird Tales For Winter. Yes, a free audiobook and soundscape collaboration: suck it off the net, stick it on your iPod and enjoy.

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What was Drug Porn?

I was being fitted for my wedding suit when Raymond called. I told him that it wasn’t a good time to talk, that I had a tailor attending to my inside leg on a hot day. Raymond ignored me and said: “You promised me that, if I ever really needed it, you would move heaven [...]

Will Self on Matthew De Abaitua

Ahead of our gig at the Brighton Komedia, Will Self gives an interview to the Brighton Argus about depression and his co-performer Matthew De [...]