Infrequent Cyclic Defrost contributor Olde Smiddy, aka Yukkof, has penned a tome celebrating musical failure, obscurity and wrong earnestness and he wants your money to help him finish.
This is part of what he has to say:
“The Vanishing Acts Almanac, an A-Z handbook about the ones who were pushed off the 1980’s music stage. A time inhabited by hundreds of flesh and blood bands that lost their way. Destroying suburban bungalows. Making music. Occasionally having their stomachs pumped. Gigging every night. Across the city.
Lunatics. Virtuosos. Repeat offenders. Original musicians representing a wide range of styles.
Inventing styles…
The Vanishing Acts Almanac is a book designed with the potential to be a transmedia work. Fact and fiction are loaded into the narrative and deception is encouraged. But the publication of the almanac is the linchpin before I take it to film producers. I have been writing this book for four years. It is intended to be subversive, satirical and to allow modern audiences to engage with the treachery of the project. To be entertained by the sweet-sounding dreamscape of nostalgia.
I wholeheartedly believe in this project.
Because it is funny as all fuck.”
More info and to pledge here.
