July 2015 – Pop & Politics

Found: First draft of Manics’ Wales Euro song, lyrics by Richey

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An ongoing blog and an archive of various bits of writing by Jon Bounds. Who’s available to hire.

Also available:

Pier Review out now, published by Summersdale. Buy from Amazon in paperback and on Kindle, or on iBooks or from independent bookshops.

“Peerless” – Danny Wallace

“Humour, nostalgia and a certain landlocked romanticism run through this coastal odyssey. Pier Review is an engaging and highly revealing sideways look at Britain from the margins.” – Catherine O’Flynn

“I don’t think I read books anymore, but if I did, I think this is the sort of book that I would read” – Bill Drummond

That Option No Longer Exists: a podcast that pits new Labour against the new old Labour. A scuffle in the aisle of a broad church. Listen here.

Our mission: to discover and discuss everything from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in entirety, and in alphabetical order. Subscribe here.

Birmingham was the crucible of the Industrial Revolution, but it gave the World so much more…

101 Things Birmingham Gave the World

“irreverent, informative and laugh-out-loud hilarious”

“one of the funniest books I have read in quite a while”

“the industrial language was uncalled for”

“Good if you finish Viz before the next edition is out”

More of this, including interviews and some short fiction. available on Kindle.