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In my chapter on my search for the most powerful politician in Alderney, I interview Paul Arditti, one of the most controversial and influential of contemporary Alderney politicians. I just heard that he died suddenly, age 64.
I’m …
Tags: Alderney
…and here’s the second chapter that I wrote for the book: on my quest to find the most powerful politician on Alderney:
Tags: Alderney, Luxembourg, unbound, writing
One of the consolations of my Unbound project not getting funded is that I can make the two chapters I wrote freely available.
So here’s the first one, in which I tell the tale of the best waterskier in Luxembourg …
So whatever did happen to The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg?
In 2011 and 2012 I worked with the crowd-funded publishing site Unbound on a book called The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds. The idea …
Souciant webzine has published a series of my essays on metal. The overall theme is what I call ‘Metal Beyond Metal’ – the future of metal in a time of chronic abundance. Here are the seven installments:
1 Too Much …
I haven’t done a metaljew post for a while now, in part because of pressure of work and in part because of website problems. To get me into the mood of posting more regularly, here’s a brief update on some …
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Heavy metal is now over forty years old and has developed into a diverse and multi-faceted genre. Wherever it is found and however it is played, metal’s fascination with transgression has often meant it has been embroiled …
So the Heavy Metal and Popular Culture conference at Bowling Green State University has now been and gone. It was a great experience with a consistently high standard of papers and some really interesting discussions. My keynote lecture, ‘Metal After …
Tags: conferences, metal
There’s a new interview with me published on the Heavy Metal Artwork website…
I’m really excited to be giving a keynote lecture at the Heavy Metal and Popular Culture conference at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, at the start of April. My lecture will be titled ‘Metal After Metal Studies: What Comes Next?’ …