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AUGUST 2010 My latest blog on Mslexia “ I don’t know about you, but Summer is turning out to be pretty hectic for me. What with going to festivals as a journalist, going to festivals as a performer, editorial work and preparations for the  Bright Young Things book launches , I’ve got very little time for working on The Novel or slobbing about watching iPlayer. Let alone ploughing through my review pile of books. I did make time to  write a short poem that was selected by Bugged though , yay, and I thought I ought to make time to blog here because I have some Literary Wales news… ” Read my latest Mslexia Blog in full In other news, I now also write for theatre bible  The Stage  and ace literary magazine  The Raconteur  have asked me to be a regular blogger for them on their all new digital edition website, so look forward to that from September. It is  Green Man festival  this weekend. I’m reading poems with Patrick Jones, Mab Jones and Rhian Ed...

‘ Is there any point having a book launch?’ muses a maudlin writer at a recent literary pub outing. ‘Not the sort I’d like I suppose. A literary wake. A small bar in the middle of nowhere. Plenty of whisky. A coffin.’ I can do that all by myself. .. Oh, how very noir. Still, as a writer with a book about to launch it got me thinking too. Do people care? Some, maybe. Is it just vanity? Probably. Do you sell books? It depends. Publishers don’t throw around money for these kind of things now. Time was there’d be wads of cash behind the bar of some lavish private members club. A literary launch party would be all champagne and cocktails and cigars and mixed up hotel rooms. These days you can usually expect a glass of tepid wine, two at a push, and a reading in a breezy arts centre. Perhaps you’ll sell a book to your Mum, and that ex lover who is still your BIGGEST FAN in rather a scary YOU DID NOT INVITE THEM way. [DISCLAIMER: Parthian assure me that the Bright Young Things launches will ...

BY  SUSIE WILD   ⋅  AUGUST 19, 2010  ⋅   POST A COMMENT FILED UNDER    BEIRUT ,  GREEN MAN FESTIVAL ,  JOANNA NEWSOM ,  SUSIE WILD ,  THE FLAMING LIPS Whoop, whoop. I’ve sorted my set list and packed me bag. I’m off to  Green Man  in TWO hours and I’m excited!! Sorry I’ve been a bit rubbish on the Buzz blog front of late, I’ve got loads I should be telling you too, so I’ll do a bit of a catch up blog when I get back from the festival. Today, though, I want to talk about Green Man and ONLY Green Man. So, it looks like it is going to be a damp one, but I have sparkly wellies so I don’t care. I shall be dancing to The Flaming Lips in the mud, just you try and stop me. Music-wise I’ll also be catching other favourites including harpy banshee Joanna Newsom, and the brilliant Beirut and Welshies Pen Pastwn (Richard James) and Race Horses. I’m also looking forward to seeing Fuck Buttons, Gold Panda, Sleepy Sun, Field Music, Tin...

Susie and her tiger hat (Photo by Rosie Reed Gold) I don’t know about you, but Summer is turning out to be pretty hectic for me. What with going to festivals as a journalist, going to festivals as a performer, editorial work and preparations for the  Bright Young Things book launches , I’ve got very little time for working on The Novel or slobbing about watching iPlayer. Let alone ploughing through my review pile of books. I did make time to  write a short poem that was selected by Bugged though , yay, and I thought I ought to make time to blog here because I have some Literary Wales news… Cerys Matthews has joined the judging panel  for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize.  We love Cerys.  I was a big Catatonia fan back in the day, but it still never fails to impress me how much guys STILL love her. I was dancing in the same tent as Cerys at a recent  Green Man festival  and you could hear the sound of multiple jaws dropping when they spotted the teeny...

AUGUST 2010 Red Handed Just a quick note to say that there are extracts from two of the Bright Young Things in the current (Summer) issue of Welsh lads mag  RedHanded Magazine . Read words by Tyler and myself on Page 12. I also have bar and restaurant reviews further back. You can pick it up for FREE in shops, pubs, and venues across South Wales. LONDON was great by the way, hello new and old London fans   I’m really looking forward to our BYT London launch. Date to be announced shortly. Ooooooooooooh exciting.

AUGUST 2010 Little People ‘Little people. Little people. Everywhere. ‘That was my first impression of Camp Bestival. There was also quite a lot of screaming, and not of the crowd loving a good band kind. More the ‘I’m teething waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah’ kind. Still, I’m a big kid at heart. I figured I’d survive as a childless punter at a child-friendly festival. I pictured balloon animals and top notch fancy dress.  I was not let down.’ I went to Camp Bestival in my ‘Top Music Journalist’ role at the weekend. You can  read my review about it over on Artrocker.tv  … word count was teeny tiny so here are some other observations… *Little people wake up early. This is worth remembering if you go to bed late AKA early, the kind of early that is perhaps a few minutes before those little people are up screaming, and playing tag around your tent. Loudly. I’d suggest stealing a pair of those brightly coloured kids’ headphones that you see on the children sprawled out practically uncons...