Look Back

I've been quiet on here - obviously not on Twitter if you follow me there, that's where I write all my nonsense - because I've been working hard both with the day job and with the edits on the book! Round one finally submitted! 

So to celebrate, let's get some music on board. It's the only thing that's sustained me through the madness of this tale. I've been toying with this story for a while. It's a whodunnit because why not? Then the pandemic hit and we are all wearing masks, not touching, having video calls with our grandmas and how would a whodunnit at a wedding when the guestlist is down to thirty with no reception work? Cue Hot Muse Hank. While listening to a great podcast by John Sweeney, HMH told me that I could keep everything as is, but have the characters talk about what happened to them as though it happened years ago, rather than currently. 

"You're a fucking genius!" I said to Hot Muse Hank. He made a face and said, "Well try it and see if it's easy."

Spoiler alert - it was NOT easy. You really forget things that were happening last week, let alone twelve nearly thirteen years ago, and then thirteen years from that date. I changed names and forgot to change names all the way through. I changed genders and forgot that I'd done that and read through thinking, who the hell is she? when I meant he. Foolishness. Did Hot Muse Hank help? Did he fuck. He reminded me that while it'd been his idea to take things way back into time, it was also my idea to follow his idea. 

Also, let me do an early warning on the content of this book. While it'll have my trademark humour, it's pretty dark. There's a lot of murder, discussions on sexual abuse and assault and stalking. Once I have the book up, you can download a sample to see if it's for you but please be assured that if it's not, I promise you, I understand. 

Anyways, the podcast within a book within a whodunnit takes place in 2020, with the murder at a wedding taking place in 2008. With me? For authenticity, all the music tracked is either from last year or 2008 or earlier. If you had seen me having a whole concert to myself doing this, you would agree with Hot Muse Hank that I have lost my natural mind. All good though! 

Music a la podcast style:

For The Last Time Soundtrack

1. 2WEI – Echoes
2. Sam Sparro – Black & Gold
3. Foals – Like Swimming
4. Tom Mc Rae – A Day Like Today
5. Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver
6. Rufus Wainwright – Not Ready To Love
7. Placebo – Pure Morning
8. Björk – Unravel
9. Kate Nash – Nicest Thing
10. Zero7 ft Mozez – I Have Seen
11. Tom Ashbrook – Klass
12. She Wants Revenge – Tear You Apart
13. Radiohead – Talk Show Host
14. Bloc Party – Biko
15. Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
16. Guillemots – Little Bear
17. TĀLĀ – Cabin Fever  
18. Portishead – Undenied
19. MJ Cole – Sincere
20. Aqualung – Good Times Gonna Come
21. The Naked And Famous – The Sun
22. Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own
23. Damian Marley – Welcome To Jamrock
24. Kanye West ft Consequence, Cam’ron – Gone
25. Stevie Wonder – I Don’t Know Why
26. Madonna – Candy Perfume Girl
27. David Bowie – All The Young Dudes
28. Tricky – Ponderosa
29. Portishead – Strangers
30. Radiohead – Nude
31. UNKLE – Price You Pay
32. Madcon – Beggin’
33. Lamb – Lullaby
34. Coldplay – Spies
35. Paramore – We Are Broken  
36. Death in Vegas – Hands Around My Throat
37. Damien Rice – Eskimo
38. Tom McRae – Walking2Hawaii
39. Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do
40. Tricky – Hell Is Around The Corner
41. Basement Jaxx – Everybody
42. Mark Ronson ft Daniel Merriweather – Stop Me
43. New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
44. Massive Attack – Teardrop
45. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
46. Radiohead – Paranoid Android  
47. The Ting Tings – We Walk
48. Low – Breaker
49. Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
50. 702 – You Don’t Know
51. Cassie – Me & U
52. Ledisi – You And Me
53. José González – Killing For Love
54. Sigor Rós – Svefn-g-englar
55. U2 – If God Will Send His Angels
56. Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’
57. PJ Harvey – The Garden
58. Faithless – Crazy English Summer
59. Little Dragon – Twice
60. Malcolm McLaren – About Her
61. Bon Iver – Creature Fear
62. Air – Photograph
63. Bonobo ft Fink – If You Stayed Over  
64. White Lies – Unfinished Business
65. Coldplay – Prospekt’s March/Poppyfields
66. Alexandre Desplat – Elegy
67. Linkin Park – Hands Held High
68. Bloc Party – Kreuzberg
69. Vanbur – In Cold Light
70. Active Child – Cruel World