A friend of mine has written a fictionalised account of his industrial band in the 80's...

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(inspired by miss misery's thread on ILE)

A friend of mine (not me!) has written a fictionalised account of the rise and fall of his band in the mid 80's - their attempt to get something going in Australia, their trip to Europe where they had various misadentures, their tour with Laibach, their releases with an Italian label and finally their inelegant collapse etc. It's written as a tragicomedy, a bit Trainspotting, a bit Powder. It's very harsh, acerbic and funny. It's in manuscript, needs editing, but it's still gold in my opinion... where should he send it? All advice gratefully received.

cheers!

― moley, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Its a screenplay then? That sounds like a really good idea!!!

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Why not Cleopatra? They harbor industrial bands and they publish books.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

It's potentially a screenplay I suppose. Yes, definitely, now I think about it.

Thanks Ian! Damn I can't believe I never asked you guys before this. It's just been sitting on my desk and I've been wondering where to send it in Australia - but of course, Aussie publishers aren't going to take a risk with something so specialist.

― moley, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Moley, you may be shocked to learn that the realities of some industrial/EBM bands are possibly far funnier than the fiction.

I may just be jealous, in conjunction with Ned, as we were planning to write a screenplay/musical with goths as the main characters, and shop it around. (I'm not kidding.) There was even a song recorded for it! By the *cough* band Maybelline Messiah. "And The Dead Will Rise"

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Either that, or the band was Pankow, and this is NOT fiction!

(I liked Pankow's cover of Prince's "Girls And Boys".. also their song "Nice Bottom")

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

No, not Pankow - but I won't reveal the name of the band as I haven't checked in with him about this thread, and I'm not sure he'd be cool with that.

The highlight of the novel so far (I've only read 6 chapters, there are about 8 or nine I think) is when they're playing in a Sydney dive and in walks... David Bowie. It's a true account and actually happened. No, he didn't hook them up with his management.

― moley, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Pankow! hah! I got that tape out of the dollar bin at the mall when I was 16. There'd always be a hundred boring pop records in there and then you'd find, like, some Chris & Cosey, early Swans, and Best of Grindcore and Destruction.

Suddenly I am reminded of reading back issues of Alternative Press featuring Jason Patterson's adventures on tour with Pigface.. You have to find a publisher for this, it sounds like absolute gold.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I tried starting a fictionalised account of a band the other day but it didn't get off the ground because I didn't know how to explain it and the band name was (purposefully) horrible.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

This NEEDS to be a movie.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

hey moley i thought you said this was non fiction.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

I like me the sound of all this.

Yup. I have the file.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

mully, it's sort of faction. Most of the characters and events are real; but some are amalgams, apparently; and some events took place but have been shifted to another country etc.

― moley, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Can you list the characters and their ATTRIBUTES and then ILX can CAST the movie?

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

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