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Andy Seven: A Writer You Should Know
I’ve been a fan of Andy Seven’s work for quite a few years now, and his latest releases certainly deliver. His book Hot Wire My Heart is a punk noir delight, while his latest spoken word work Sea Level Drive shows another side of this author’s clever capabilities. The poetry and experimental sound-ology that Seven mixes in Sea Level Drive will blow you away.
I highly recommend these two works, and Andy Seven’s back catalogue!
Hot Wire My Heart Review
With Hot Wire My Heart, Andy Seven has returned to his punk noir novel roots, following Every Good Boy Dies First and Every Bitch for Himself, and it is perhaps his best.
The plot involves Dante, a young punk who writes gossip about bands for a squat-based local music rag (the more sensational the gossip, the better, as far as Dante’s concerned), causing an inferno of trouble after he uncovers a story about a politician’s son called Tommy Shock (who’s well known on the local punk scene) sleeping with an underage girl. From thereon, things get complicated and gather pace. Storylines entangle to create a sort of serious farce. It seems like everyone is out to get someone else or to avoid getting involved in the shenanigans that are going on, as the plot comes to an exhilarating crescendo.
Under the surface, the book deals with subjects like rich kids in bands pretending they’re on the same level as the punks who rose from the gutter, the divide between the rich and the poor and the punks and the hippies of 1978 San Francisco, and the sensationalism of gossip that ends up in print.
Seeing as Andy Seven was an original punk from the era, and both played in bands and wrote for music rags, he’s the ideal person to write this tale. He really captures the American 1970s punk scene (not that I was there) and has a knack of being able to create believable but almost cartoon-like heroes and villains. (Actually, most are villains in some shape or form.)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s absorbing, flowing, original, clever, violent, funny, and invigorating. Andy Seven is a true artist.
I highly recommend Hot Wire My Heart. So, cross those wires, put your foot on the pedal, and enjoy this fantastic hundred-mile-per hour crime fiction ride.
Sea Level Drive Review
I don’t really know how to review this brilliant spoken word work, but I came up with this:
Experimental etymological sparkles collide with dirty banshee-like basslines and pretty mandolin plucking to create a beat noir jazz cacophony of supersonic phonics, candy bars, catchy tunes, electric Lynch-like noise and hustler ghosts.
‘kin marvellous.
Hot Wire My Heart on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Wire-Heart...
Listen to Sea Level Drive on Bandcamp:
https://andysevenltd.bandcamp.com/
I highly recommend these two works, and Andy Seven’s back catalogue!
Hot Wire My Heart Review
With Hot Wire My Heart, Andy Seven has returned to his punk noir novel roots, following Every Good Boy Dies First and Every Bitch for Himself, and it is perhaps his best.
The plot involves Dante, a young punk who writes gossip about bands for a squat-based local music rag (the more sensational the gossip, the better, as far as Dante’s concerned), causing an inferno of trouble after he uncovers a story about a politician’s son called Tommy Shock (who’s well known on the local punk scene) sleeping with an underage girl. From thereon, things get complicated and gather pace. Storylines entangle to create a sort of serious farce. It seems like everyone is out to get someone else or to avoid getting involved in the shenanigans that are going on, as the plot comes to an exhilarating crescendo.
Under the surface, the book deals with subjects like rich kids in bands pretending they’re on the same level as the punks who rose from the gutter, the divide between the rich and the poor and the punks and the hippies of 1978 San Francisco, and the sensationalism of gossip that ends up in print.
Seeing as Andy Seven was an original punk from the era, and both played in bands and wrote for music rags, he’s the ideal person to write this tale. He really captures the American 1970s punk scene (not that I was there) and has a knack of being able to create believable but almost cartoon-like heroes and villains. (Actually, most are villains in some shape or form.)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s absorbing, flowing, original, clever, violent, funny, and invigorating. Andy Seven is a true artist.
I highly recommend Hot Wire My Heart. So, cross those wires, put your foot on the pedal, and enjoy this fantastic hundred-mile-per hour crime fiction ride.
Sea Level Drive Review
I don’t really know how to review this brilliant spoken word work, but I came up with this:
Experimental etymological sparkles collide with dirty banshee-like basslines and pretty mandolin plucking to create a beat noir jazz cacophony of supersonic phonics, candy bars, catchy tunes, electric Lynch-like noise and hustler ghosts.
‘kin marvellous.
Hot Wire My Heart on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Wire-Heart...
Listen to Sea Level Drive on Bandcamp:
https://andysevenltd.bandcamp.com/
