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‘Deep in the vulnerabilities and privileges of suburbia’ – The Undercover Soundtrack, Adam Byatt @RevHappiness
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on February 10, 2021
My latest guest on The Undercover Soundtrack was inspired by just one musical work – Mount Pleasant, an album that commemorates a vanished suburb of Sydney, Australia. However, the suburb didn’t vanish; the name was changed by the council in an attempt to erase its reputation for violence. But the people remained, and so did the environment with all its troubles. The members of Solkyri, a band who grew up there, set to capture Mount Pleasant old and new, and writer Adam Byatt found himself so moved by the tracks that he also created Mount Pleasant, in a set of 10 short stories. Music and stories, preserving a vanished place that never really vanished. Adam is on the Red Blog now.
Adam Byatt, Australia, Mount Pleasant, music and authors, music for creative writing, short stories, Solkyri, Sydney, The Undercover Soundtrack, undercover soundtrack, vanished places
‘When I’m most lost, a song will show the way’ – The Undercover Soundtrack, Ryan W Bradley
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in How to write a book, Undercover Soundtrack on February 4, 2016
My guest this week says that music is the key to most of his work. The title of his short story collection, Nothing But The Dead and Dying, came from a line in a Simon and Garfunkel song. All the stories are bound by the landscape of Alaska, where he worked for a while in a construction crew. Ennio Morricone helped him recreate its barren desolation. And when he’s been stuck on a story, even to the extent of giving up, rescue usually comes in the form of a random piece of music. He is Ryan W Bradley and he’s on the Red Blog with his Undercover Soundtrack.
Alaska, music for creative writing, music for writers, music for writing, Ryan W Bradley, short stories, Simon and Garfunkel, The Undercover Soundtrack, undercover soundtrack
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