Playlists

So summer holidays, entertaining children, sending "The book" off to proof readers, and the broadband breaking, for what felt like many, many years has resulted in a hiatus of blogging activity.

However this did not prevent Sir Dave-or David Frankum as you all know him, the epicily awesome illustrator from getting on and doing his thing!

So I shall share a few bits of tantalising excitement from Daves mind, along with his playlist to which he draws, as a few folk realllllly want to know what I wrote to and I thought well I'll let you know what Dave draws to as well, because I am nice like that ( and his songs are probably better than mine. Fact. And my playlists are not as neatly labelled chapters 1-3. Mine are: Iris's songs, Jonathon's songs, Songs for arguing too and so on). And also because once you get to actually read the book, it would be interesting to hear what you guys think. Do the playlists come through in the writing, or do you think "EH? I can't imagine that part being written  while listening to 1D!"- which actually never happened.

So here are a few of Daves sketches-yes I typed correctly, sketches, as in rough, quickly thrown together drawings of one of  our characters.

Are you missing Edward Cullen? Are you pining still for some complicated literary existence of a fella. Well that's him there. You will find him in your local woods, local club and possibly HMV if you still have one open near you. Also lurking in dark shadows.

This is much less mugger/rapist than it translates on paper...for once we might need the words. However I adore the way Dave has captured the movement of our character in this pose.

So playlists.....

Daves for chapters 1-3:
1. When I first came to town - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
2. Every day is like Sunday - Morrisey.
3. Beautiful Summer - Primal Scream.
4. The River - Bruce Springsteen.
5. Flume - Bon Iver.
6. Sundown - The Jesus and Mary Chain.
7. Under the house - Public Image Limited.
8. Wide open space - Mansun.
9. Wasting the Dawn - The 69 Eyes.
10. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen.
11. The sun ain't gonna shine anymore - The Walker Brothers.
12. Dirt - The Stooges.
13. Red Eyes and Tears - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
14. Untitled - Interpol.
15. New Dawn Fades - Joy Division.
16. Resigning - Blur.
17. Marquee Moon - Television.
18. From Despair to Where - Manic Street Preachers