counter create hit
Birthdays For The Dead

Stuart MacBride lives in the North East of Scotland, where he writes gruesome crime novels and grows gruesome potatoes.

Vote For Stuart - Million For A Morgue

Upcoming events
13 Mar
Event - 19:30
Rude songs, swearing, and the occasional rant at the Bell Library, Perth Want to go?

22 Mar
Event - 18:30
Norwich Crime Festival - Doing the funky chicken with Henry Sutton, or maybe some sort of interviewy event thing. Want tickets?

21 May
Event - 19:00
Christopher Brookmyre, Craig Robertson, and I will be talking about books and stuff. There may be a bit of swearing here too... Music Hall, Aberdeen Details & tickets.

19 - 22 July
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate

Thursday, February 03, 2011

An Musical Interlude

There are times when being a writeist is very cool, and this is one of them. When I was up in Shetland before Christmas I was talking to Donald Anderson of Shetland Arts about the new book, and the website HarperCollins were going to put together for the TV talent show that features in it: Britain's Next Big Star.

And after a few pints of Guinness I managed to persuade him to write a song and perform it for the website. A packet of crisps, and he agreed to dedicate it to Alison and Jenny McGregeor too! Bwahahahahaha. Best cheese-and-onion I ever spent. So when we did the final even of my writer-in-residency, Donald got up and performed the song, Gwilym Gibbons filmed it, I sodded about with some filters so it would fit the BNBS website and Bob's one of your parents' siblings.

And now, after a long time dormant, I can proudly present: Donald Anderson and One More Twist Of The Knife.



What's even more impressive is that the song's actually based on the workshops I was giving while I was in Shetland, and works in a lot of the themes and exercises. How cool is that?

Mr Anderson, our hats are off to you!

Labels: , ,

1 Comments:

At 8:23 PM, Blogger Kim said...

Very cool indeed!

 
Post a Comment
Powered by Blogger