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Umbrella playlist

October 28, 2013

In largeheartedboy.com’s Book Notes series, Will Self has created – and discusses – a music playlist that relates to his most recently published book, Umbrella, from the Kinks’ “Ape Man” to “Don’t Let it Die” by Hurricane Smith.

A hurricane of denim, guitars and fucking great music

February 24, 2013

Introducing Ivan Self’s heavy metal blog (“A young rock music fan seeking his place in the world”) – ivanself.tumblr.com.

Bloody flyovers

March 28, 2011

“Sometimes I think I may be losing … my incident room”

Listen to Bomb the Bass’s track 5ml Barrel, from their album Clear, featuring Will Self.

Warren Zevon liner notes

May 20, 2010

Will Self’s liner notes for Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon (2002):

What I do is this; I leave the city and go about 50 miles away to a town in the county of Wiltshire called Swindon. This place has a bit of a joke reputation in England; it’s our dinky version of Motown, with a Honda factory and no Berry Gordy – but that’s besides the point. I have a friend there who keeps my alternative identity stashed in the back room above his shop (which sells model trains, cars and aeroplanes to serious hobbyists; but that too is besides the point). It’s a small room with a tired atmosphere, the single bed covered with a quilted nylon spread that hangs down to the floor. From the window you can see a stack of car tyres piled up by a chainlink fence and two small boys poking a dead frog with a length of bamboo.   More...

The Happy Detective (Part 2)

September 16, 2009

The second instalment of Will Self’s The Happy Detective will be released on Snow Patrol’s Late Night Tales at the end of the month. The first part is on Groove Armada’s Late Night Tales, released last year.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: More News From Nowhere

December 2, 2008

Spotted — an oddly geeky-looking Will, propping up the bar in Cave’s video filling in a crossword, though, according to this account, he was filling it in using his own answers: “Later, while I was aimlessly wandering around waiting for the lighting to be set-up or some such technical detail I took a look at Self’s crossword. He had filled it all in but with words that bore no relation to the clues. These were all proper words. In fact they were proper Selfian, or is it Self-ish words like: perfidy, carillon, phylum and quincunx. And they all slotted into the crossword grid perfectly. It was a revelation to me. Nobody I have now asked has ever seen a crossword done like this before.”

The Song Writers – Guardian article

January 29, 2006

A passing reference to Will Self’s colloboration with Bomb The Bass in Dave Simpson’s September 2002 article.

“It is one of the most unlikely pop phenomena ever: a bunch of acclaimed authors teaming up with rock’n’rollers. Salman Rushdie has recorded with U2. Hunter S Thompson appears on the new Paul Oakenfold album. Will Self has worked with Bomb the Bass. And now it’s the turn of Iain Banks, who has lent his expressive tones to an album by chillout guru and Radio 1 DJ Chris Coco…   More...



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Will Self - Will
Will Self's latest book Will is published in hardback by Viking on 14 November 2019.

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Will’s Previous Books

Will Self - Phone
Phone
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  Shark
Shark
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Umbrella
Umbrella
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  The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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The Undivided Self
The Undivided Self
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  Walking To Hollywood
Walking To Hollywood
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The Butt
The Butt
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  Grey Area
Grey Area
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Junk Mail
Junk Mail
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  Great Apes
Great Apes
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Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
Psycho II
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  Liver
Liver
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How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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  Dorian
Dorian
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Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy
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  Sore Sites
Sore Sites
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Perfidious Man
Perfidious Man
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