Ian D. Smith's Writing Credits

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Ian

The Front View (aka The View From Here) (ISSN 1758-2903): Telescopes @ http://tinyurl.com/q88dqv Transmission 6 (ISSN 1752-3729): Nobody Knows a Damned Thing @ http://tinyurl.com/dnmkzd Transmission 4: The North is So Much Better for Youngsters Today @ http://tinyurl.com/c35e83 Nobody Told the Horse, I Hadn’t Even Started and Not Your Problem (Surprising Stories) @ http://tinyurl.com/qnnf5x Think of [...]

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Poems of the Month

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Ian

What You Will See is Billy breaking out of his breeze block bunker With a bust of Bloodaxe. You’ll see the concrete Of his tenement crack to reveal corroded filigree – Billy collapses in the chill air with a crick in the neck. You’ll see dockland dredgers crossing dry land. Yet Norse dialect survives behind [...]

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Friction Fiction Podcast Show 42

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Ian

In show 42, I play some great new songs from Myspace: Snow Globe and Take One by Jimmy G, Some Things Will Never Change, and Collide by Ayewrite, Natchoongi Breaked Dub Rmx ft Salman Ahmad by Antony Raijekov from ccMixter.org. Poetry: I read The Insurance Claim by Peter Asher from Poetrymonthly.com. I read my bridge [...]

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I'm Bored With Mainstream Music

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Ian

And I’m not alone. There are many of us sick of the processed rubbish. So I did something. For over a year I’ve been writing and recording hundreds of my own songs on my laptop using a Line 6 tone port, a Taylor acoustic, a Fender strat, and a Shure mike. I call the set [...]

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Anti-War Midsummer Friction Fiction Coming

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Ian

I don’t mean overtly anti-war, but I do write poems with a theme of political power, neighbour versus neighbour, calls to arms, and division. So why did the RAF choose the day I’m recording Friction Fiction to try out their fighters overhead? Coincidence? Paranoid? Anyway, it makes for a poignant moment. So I’m putting the [...]

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Happy 40th Friction Fiction

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Ian

Lots of poems with wordplay in them in this 40th edition of the music and poetry podcast show. I spent half the day recording it and the other half packing to get away for a few weeks. The music is great. I found Bombero’s song Andinfinity sitting doing nothing on ccmixter, and then I enlisted [...]

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Looking Back – The Riff 5

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Ian

I spent all morning getting the house ready for propective buyers and estate agents, and headed to the gym at 10am. Since then, I’ve been trying to improve the recording of Looking Back. The way of recording the acoustic through the mike and the Toneport just didn’t work, so I recorded a new guitar track [...]

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Anxiety and the Common Barking Man

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Ian

I just emailed a friend about a visit I made a week ago with Caroline, just before the VT killing, to Stourhead, a beautiful National Trust park near here. We saw a really strange incident. We were trekking round the grounds, and we reached the remote King Alfred’s Tower where there’s a Victorian folly, a [...]

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Pete Doherty Satirical Podcast

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Ian

I wrote and produced a satirical podcast this morning and posted it on Hold It Up For Ridicule, see My Satire above. I’d been thinking about the careful rock romantic image created for Pete Doherty by the music biz, and I wanted a different angle on the usual miserable treatment Doherty gets in the media. [...]

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Friction Fiction 38, Cars, and the Economy

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Ian

Today I published the Friction Fiction Podcast Show 38 I recorded on Friday at Libsyn. Here it is on iandsmith.com for downloading or just plain listening. This week I play music from Slumberlords, Ditto, Stanton Delaplane, a great new song from Tommy Mac, and Ashwan. I read two poems from a booklet published by SCAN [...]

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