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Re: (TV) Television and... Luke Haines



That's a very cool bit about Verlaine.

Tim, I very much enjoyed your book Sonic Transmission.

Any chance of a 2nd edition?

-A

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Tim Mitchell<fireman9@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> The publisher of my book on Television, 'Sonic Transmission', somehow
> 'mislaid' one of the chapters and as a result it was left out of the book.
> If anyone would like to read it, I've put it up on my website at:
>
> www.timmitchell.org.uk
>
> (follow the 'Sonic Transmission' link).
>
> Also, if anyone is interested in Luke Haines, I've written a novel about him
> which has just been published (it includes interview material, too). It's
> called 'Truth and Lies in Murder Park' and there are more details on the
> website, and a review here:
>
> http://bit.ly/AiicX
>
> When I was interviewing Haines I asked him about the time he supported
> Television at David Bowie's Meltdown, and this is what he told me (short but
> quite sweet, I think):
>
> "Tom Verlaine came into our dressing room. They were trying to cobble
> together some sort of art-rock Bowie trip and he knocked on our door and
> came in our dressing room. He didn't even introduce himself, he just said:
>
> 'Bowie hit, two words.'
>
> '"Rebel Rebel"?'
>
> 'Got it.'
>
> And that was him out. Which is a perfect kind of Tom Verlaine thing. I liked
> that."
>
>
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