"An essential handbook to the most advanced modern music from the Bible of experimental sounds. Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the plan ..."
"Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic presentations that were made at the Symposium ..."
This Is Memorial Device by DavidKeenan Digital, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33084-3, ISBN: 0-571-33084-3
""Brilliant stuff. It captures the terrific, obsessive, ludicrous pomposity of every music fans youth in an utterly definitive way." Irvine Welsh"I wanted to live in this book." ― Kim GordonRoss Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk scene of the early ’80s – the glory years – when anything and everything seemed possible. Looking back on that time – the people, the bands, the underground legends ..."
England's Hidden Reverse(2nd Edition) A Secret History of The Esoteric Underground (Strange Attractor Press) by DavidKeenan Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2014 by Strange Attractor Press ISBN-13: 978-1-907222-17-7, ISBN: 1-907222-17-0
"An obsessively researched biography of the three seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound that also illuminates the history of the English underground scene.Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of the seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, England's Hidden Reverse illuminates a shadowy but deeply influential underground scene. Together these artists and their many associates acce ..."
"Birthed in the fall-out from legendary "Industrial" units Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, David Tibet’s Current 93, John Balance and Peter Christopherson’s Coil and Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound represent the real English underground in all its sexual, cultural, and artistic variety. An individually numbered limited edition, lavishly illustrated with photographs and original artworks, complete with previously unreleased CD, this ..."
"For decades, hazing rituals–such as excessive drinking, drug use, paddling, and sexual abuse–have been required by many teams and organizations as a rite of passage, while administration and department heads have turned a blind eye. In recent years, several young men and women have lost their live from hazing-related practices in Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, California, Louisiana, Virginia, and Massachusetts. But these practices and r ..."
For The Good Times by DavidKeenan Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2020 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34052-1, ISBN: 0-571-34052-0
"Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of North Belfast that has become the epicentre of a country intent on cannibalising itself. They love sharp clothes, a good drink, and the songs of Perry Como - whose commitment to clean living holds up a dissonant mirror to their own attempts to rise above their circumstances. They dream of a Free State, and their methods for achieving this ar ..."
Xstabeth A Guardian Book of the Day by DavidKeenan Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1705-5, ISBN: 1-4746-1705-0
"It builds on the female voices first radicalised in Keenan's award-winning debut novel, This is Memorial Device."
"ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Beautifully believable and appallingly sad ... One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years ... A hallucinatory and haunting vision.' (The Guardian) This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they w ..."
This Is Memorial Device A Novel by DavidKeenan Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber Social ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34017-0, ISBN: 0-571-34017-2
"The story of a cast of misfits, drop-outs, small town visionaries and would-be artists and musicians through a period of time where anything seemed possible. This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small working class towns in western Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. At its cor ..."
This is Memorial Device An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and Environs 1978-1986 by DavidKeenan Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33083-6, ISBN: 0-571-33083-5
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH'Beautifully believable and appallingly sad ... One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years ... A hallucinatory and haunting vision.' (The Guardian)This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of ..."
"Who are Asia s middle class? How much do they earn? How much do they invest? How much do they spend, on what and why? And what do they still want? Asia s extensive middle class is driving changes in consumer spending throughout the region and globally, as well being a significant force in economic and societal change. Yet, until now, there has been no comprehensive, reliable study of what drives this increasingly influential demographi ..."
Shadows in a Chinese Landscape Chi Yun's Notes from a Hut for Examining the Subtle : Chi Yun's Notes from a Hut for Examining the Subtle by Chi Yun, DavidKeenan 188 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-315-29311-0, ISBN: 1-315-29311-0
"Keenan, David L. The Forms and Uses of the Chinese Ghost Story as Recorded
in the Yüeh-wei ts'ao-t'ang pi-chi of Chi Yün . Doctoral dissertation Harvard
University, 1987. Lai Fang-ling , Yüeh-wei ts'ao-t'ang ... Shih Liang-ju , translator.
Pai-hua Yüeh-wei ts'ao-t'angpi-chi . Peking: Nung-ts'untu-wuch'u-panshe, 1989.
Su Shih , Su Wen-chung Kung shih-chi . Annotated by Chi Yün Shanghai: Sao-
yeh shan-fang . 1917. Sun Chih-chung . Chi ..."
How Can Man Die Better(Updated) The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed by Colonel Mike Snook, DavidKeenan Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Frontline Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84832-581-4, ISBN: 1-84832-581-9
"Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive feature that bore an eerie resemblance to the Sphinx badge of the outnumbered redcoats. Disaster ensued. Later that afternoon the victorious Zulus would strike the tiny British garrison at Ro ..."
"Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy charts the history of this influential music genre, from its roots in free jazz, psychedelia and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the groundbreaking experiments of Faust, Kraftwerk and Can. The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarc ..."
England's Hidden Reverse(2nd Edition) Coil - Current 93 - Nurse with Wound by DavidKeenan Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Saf Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-946719-73-0, ISBN: 0-946719-73-X
"“A sumptuous, high-art production, astonishing photographs. An essential book, a magnet to attract new listeners with its compelling field of gravity.”—Record CollectorDavid Keenan’s book miraculously weaves the history of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse with Wound into one fascinating narrative. Working almost entirely outside the framework of the music industry, all three bands have courted controversy, experimented with the fringes of da ..."
"Definitive history of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound-a peculiarly English underground phenomenon. Deluxe paperback edition of last season's bestseller, written with full co-operation of all three bands. Lavishly illustrated with color and black & white photos, including a CD of material from Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Coil. Cover designed by Stephen Stapleton."A superb document that effortlessly unravels the intricacies of ..."
"My Bloody Valentines Loveless is one of the most revered albums of the 1990s. Highly influential, shrouded in mystery, it has so far been an impossible album to follow up for its chief creator, Kevin Shields. Here, Mike McGonigal pieces together the often painful process behind the writing and recording of Loveless, and tries to separate fact from fiction in a story that involves (among other things) chinchillas, chicken-eating con ..."
"Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive feature that bore an eerie resemblance to the Sphinx badge of the outnumbered redcoats. Disaster ensued. Later that afternoon the victorious Zulus would strike the tiny British garrison at Ro ..."