And here's the first interview about Shock and Awe - with Craig Austin of Wales Arts Review.

Shock and Awe UK events next week - reminder with updated info

SHEFFIELD  Tuesday October 4^th - 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm (as part of the Off the Shelf Festival of Words)
The Auditorium, University of Sheffield Student's Union, Western Bank, S10 2TG  

chatting with Lee Ford (BBC Radio Sheffield) +  Q &A  +  Rocky Horror Picture Show film

tickets and info - 0114 22 33 777 –  http://offtheshelf.org.uk/

LONDON  Wednesday October 5^th   - 7 pm - 10 pm
The Forge, 3–7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
chatting with Alexis Petridis (Guardian)  + Q & A + glam video clips + DJ Simon Price
tickets and info – 0207 383 7808 - http://www.forgevenue.org/

MANCHESTER  Thursday October 6^th   -  18.45 pm pm - 10 pm
Home, 2 Tony Wilson Place, First Street, M15 4FN
chatting with Bob Stanley (author Yeah Yeah Yeah) + Q&A +  T. Rex: Born To Boogie film
tickets and info: 0161 200 1500 - http://homemcr.org/

Couple of things I wrote recently:

- entries on Laraaji's Day of Radiance, Brian Eno's On Land, and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol II in this fun and informative Pitchfork 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time list - which includes a lot of stuff I've not heard and a few I've not heard of. Prefatory remarks by Keith Fullerton Whitman + contributions from Philip Sherburne, Mark Richardson, Andy Beta + more. 

- piece for MTV on how Alice Cooper's "Elected" was a prophecy of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The first of a bunch of pieces loosely linked to Shock and Awe.