@8minutesidle.bsky.socialThanks to Verey Bookshop for inviting me to do an event for Famous.
Matt Thorne
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Author of six novels, three children’s books, one film and critical study of pop star Prince. MA Convenor in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. New book FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Rock, Pop and Hip-Hop out now.
@8minutesidle.bsky.social@8minutesidle.bsky.socialOne of the new ones. I think it was ‘Highway Born.’
@8minutesidle.bsky.social"My wife says no one wants to hear this song...but she isn't here, is she?" Wonderfully moody Bill Callahan show tonight, best one here in some time.
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialWonderful launch of new Stephen King and Peter Straub novel Other Worlds Than These in the same hotel where King started Misery (panel: Mark Lawson, Anna Bogutskaya, Catriona Ward, Sam Leith).
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialCory Hanson, Moth Club.
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialFilms about writers-highbrow, lowbrow, arthouse, commercial-are my guilty pleasure, and Verity is a highly enjoyable one. Misery, Leave Her to Heaven, Vertigo and a dozen others into a blender...and is playing in the biggest screens in cinemas, the ones usually reserved for superheroes and space.
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialLemonheads, Troxy
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialDestroyer, ICA.
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialRyan Davis (and the Roadhouse Band), Oslo.
@8minutesidle.bsky.socialThis is a bonkers release, but ultimately I'm glad to have it. God knows what a newcomer to Prince might think, but 'Calabama’, The Guilty Ones' and ‘Bestest Friend’ fill out the story for me.