[27.8.05][Andrew Stevens] THE MISSING LINKS Brett Easton Ellis' Lunar Park has a devoted microsite, which mentions his forthcoming London appearance. * Houellebecq's new novel The Possibility of an Island provokes an unusual reaction. * Death of the Moog. * More on the A19 sound of Maximo Park. * The world of fanzines, on the net. * An outbreak of common sense that might not be to the ULA's taste. * Andy Beckett on the legacy of post-punk in the LRB: "The movement's politics were the counterculture's restless mixture of left-wing and entrepreneurial thinking. Rough Trade, the pioneering independent record label that put out much of post-punk's best music, was based in Ladbroke Grove, then an inner London suburb of squats and lingering 1960s atmospheres. The label was partly run as a collective, with equal pay, a tea-making rota and 'constant meetings'. On the other side of the capital, Throbbing Gristle, one of post-punk's darker entities - 'Slug Bait' and 'Discipline' were typical song titles - lived in a commune in Hackney whose sexual and other experiments were not for the faint-hearted." * The First Post claims to be the UK's first internet magazine. * New novel Fish Sunday Thinking portrays City legal firms' senior staff as "...obsessively predatory, promoting women on the basis of breast size and sexual allure rather than legal acumen, and calling in the favours owed." * Hip young gunslinger Tony Parsons is firing blanks. [permalink]
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