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or the original podcast
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
New Video "Gin and It's" playing on YouTube NOW!!!
From the Poppynoir vaults a new video on YouTube before The Vin Club reading on Thursday, April 19, at 7PM, in San Francisco, on Broadway, with Dana Sitar, Michelle Murphy, and Hollie Hardy, with our MC for the evening, Claudia Holmes, Gin and It's ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mB5AFtnZ8Q 
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
COMING OF AGE WITH BRIXTON KEY
"Charlie is a mixture of tough street waif and cuddly cherub from an
early age. He knows how to fight and shoplift, but at age ten, he still
sleeps with a teddy bear named Concrete, and talks his mother into
taking in a stray cat." Barney Quick, Indie Music, 3 April, 2012.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
GET LIT at The Vin Club
Come and GET LIT at The Vin Club, San Francisco with readings
by authors Brixton Key, “Charlie Six,” Dana Sitar, “The Hart Compound,” Michelle
Murphy, “Jackknife and Light,” and “survival poet” Hollie Hardy. The evenings compère
will be the inimitable Claudia Holmes.
The Hart Compound: www.smashwords.com/books/view/135148
Charlie Six: www.WhereIsCharlieSix.com
Michelle Murphy: http://murphypoetry.wordpress.com
Hollie Hardy’s poetry is published in Eleven Eleven,
sPARKLE & bLINK, The Common, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Parthenon West
Review, Transfer, One Ded Cow, Milvia Street, and other journals.
It's fab to read with great writers. Keeps you tippetty-toed. Wonderful ideas transpire and open up the mindwindows when you listen to writers as gifted as those joining me at the Vin. Hope to see you there.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Blown Up Like Al Capone
I've been editing a bunch of Charlie Six videos with my friend Larry "Trousers" Drabble. He's cool with the moving montage. The videos are for a promotion via Kindle for next month. In the meantime we had a great reading by my Claudia Holmes from the chapter "Blown up like Al Capone," which didn't quite fit into the series of readings by Max Harley Rogerson. It was put aside until Freddie Fable popped in to see me on a business trip to San Francisco from London. Freddie loves mobsters being a bit of a wide boy himself. He reckons I modeled Spider after him, which is weird as Spider is Jamaican and Freddie's paler than newspaper. Still he's deft with the video cut and after polishing off a couple of bottle of Charles Shaw he banged this together with some great music by Pippa Lang and John McManus for the soundtrack.
Here it is
Thursday, February 23, 2012
New Charlie Six Review in Life After 50
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1960's COMING OF AGE NOVEL EXPLORES FAMILY DYSFUNCTION AND LOVE
Jan 19, 2012, 9:04 a.m.
That seven-year-old Charlie smokes and drinks a sip of alcohol can be both liberating and shocking. It’s the way things once were.
There’s an uncanny truth between the pages. Charlie Six is not your normal coming of age story. It’s a tough, funny, and brutal story of an era that has now gone, although Key wonders if it really ever existed.
“I made it my business throughout the novel to create an imaginary world. It was never my intention to bring back to life a time that’s past,” says Brixton. Like other authors he admires, he wanted to blur ‘the realities of time and space until it seemed like everyday life.’”
Charlie Six does not believe in politicians or religious superstitions. Being around his family has proved old dogmas to be obsolete. He’s completely contemporary in his disdain of the way things are. The novel touches a nerve in people who lived through the 1960’s and the decades close to it. But equally important, Charlie Six speaks to a younger generation who are intrigued by the influences that shaped their parents and grandparents.
Despite the dysfunctional nature of Charlie's family, they are driven by love; love for the world and for each other. It is this love that seeps into every crevice of Charlie's upbringing, and it is this love that helps Charlie to realize his full potential during his teenage years, and eventually get out of the London slums, using his passion for music as his propeller.
“Everyone I knew was hopped on amphetamine,” says Key of his childhood experience, “when we weren’t out watching British bands playing rhythm and blues or soul music we sat in each other’s bedrooms playing the records we’d copped from America. This is what Charlie Six is all about. I funneled my growing up through him.”
With optimism and incredible honesty Charlie Six explores:
The 1960's music scene in the U.K.
Dealing with drug and alcohol abuse
Love—the most important part of family
The power of imagination
Growing up during a cultural transition
About the Author
Brixton Key was born in Isleworth, England in the 1950s to a party-loving scallywag Mum and an errant Dad. Expelled from boarding school, which he attended on a scholarship, Brixton landed a gig with the British music weekly Melody Maker, writing under the name of Mark Plummer. He left for America one step ahead of Margaret Thatcher’s clampdown to manage Chris Isaak in the 1980s, guiding the pop idol and actor’s career as MTV started ruling the airwaves. In the 90's Brixton suffered a life-threatening brain aneurism. After he recovered, on the advice of his stepson he began writing fiction. Brixton lives with his girlfriend Josephine in a downtown San Francisco loft. In the late night hours he reads his favorite authors under skyscraper shadows, and works on his sequel of the Charlie Six trilogy, There Ain't No God Here. A lifelong insomniac he has little time for sleep. Who would when another story is lurking around every dark corner?
Website: www.whereischarliesix.com/
Charlie Six is available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
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