Apologies For Not Writing For a While
July 8, 2015 | Posted in AUTHOR BLOGS, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized | By Arthur Chappell
We would knock at houses as late as 9pm. We were told to ignore signs in doors and windows saying no sales or charity callers. we were supposed to ignore anyone saying they have no money or already give to other charities and keep pitching a deal to them.
Diary Entries 2nd To 8th April 2015
April 10, 2015 | Posted in AUTHOR BLOGS, CONVENTIONS, FANDOM, NON-FICTION | By Arthur Chappell
Diary – Easter Monday 6th April 2015 – The main Easter Bank Holiday though being unemployed left it feeling like just another Monday for me. My Mum did us a special Easter lunch which was almost a Christmas Dinner and very nice.
Diary Friday 27th March 2015
March 29, 2015 | Posted in AUTHOR BLOGS, MUSIC, NON-FICTION, ORCHESTRAL MUSIC | By Arthur Chappell
I got my welfare officers to release my five year work history, except it stops a few months short of the date the employers need covering. They now need a deeper record of my work history and I have had to request that too, though it could take weeks to send it to me.
Escapism V Realism – Introducing Arthur Chappell
March 29, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, FANTASY, HORROR, NON-FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION | By Arthur Chappell
What if my dad had lived? What if I had not joined the cult when a pretty girl invited me? Would I now be a writer? Would I have written Wendigo Water? Would you be reading this?
H G Wells And Orson Welles Meeting in 1940
March 26, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, BOOKS, CLASSICS, HISTORICAL, HORROR, MOVIES, NON-FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION | By Arthur Chappell
H G Wells, who was travelling in the United States on a lecture tour, and safely away from the Luftwaffe bombing in Europe and London, expressed great amusement at the similarity of the names, Wells & Welles. He jokingly advises Orson Welles to drop the unnecessary extra e.
John Taylor: In The Pleasure Groove
September 17, 2014 | Posted in MUSIC, NON-FICTION | By sockii
Like many teenage girls in the 1980s, I was a huge “Duranie” and went through a phase of being madly in love with John Taylor, the gorgeous bassist of my favorite band at the time: Duran Duran. While that teenage crush might have faded through the years (or shall we say matured?), I remain…
Book Review: Chris Campion’s Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
August 24, 2014 | Posted in CLASSIC ROCK, NON-FICTION | By sockii
Chris Campion’s Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock is, quite easily, the most negatively-toned rock “biography” – and I use that term very lightly in this case – I can recall ever reading. While there is some interesting information contained within the book’s 300 pages, each of those pages is so thoroughly laced with…
Book Review: Secret Police Man By Henry Padovani
August 22, 2014 | Posted in NON-FICTION, ROCK | By sockii
Those interested in the punk and new wave music scene of London in the late 70s and early 80s should find an interesting perspective in “Secret Police Man”, the autobiography of The Police’s first guitarist, Henry Padovani…
Pete Townshend: Who I Am Book Review
April 17, 2014 | Posted in CLASSIC ROCK, NON-FICTION | By sockii
Who is Pete Townshend? That is the question the famous rocker purports to answer in his 2012 autobiography, Who I Am. With a musical career now encompassing…
