Here is the latest Friction Fiction podcast featuring music from Ghost K, Steveless, Meg, Sammy Ault, Valentine, A Singer Must Die and The Hexyl Circle, and poems from my collection What You Will See at Gattopublishing.com.
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It’s the warmest Easter in the UK I can remember, which is great for being outdoors, but not so great for sitting at the PC blogging. Here’s my second guitar. It’s a Hohner Fender 65 strat copy from 1981, almost certainly made in Fender’s Japan factory, but I’d have to dismantle it to find the Fender factory mark inside the heel. It plays better than lots of real Fenders I’ve played. It suits Ernie Ball hybrid slinky 9s, and I use it to record as it’s punchier than the Taylor. Here it is on episode 1 of my songwriting podcast, The Riff, which I started last month.
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I started podcasting The Friction Fiction Show from the basement of my home in Reading, UK February 2006. I listened to lots of podcasts, and thought that a scripted podcast about fiction on the internet was needed. A year and 37 episodes on, the show has evolved into a weekly dose of alternative music downloaded from the great site, ccMixter and from the many excellent unsigned Myspace bands. I also feature my own songs and poetry. The show has hundreds of listeners and subscribers. It goes out at Libsyn, and Myspace, and now it’s available to you if you subscribe to iandsmith.com. Here is the short promo to get you started.
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How do I start a blog about the things I do? Maybe, “Hi, I’m a writer…” Maybe not. The header has links to my satire, and fiction, plus some up-to-date photos, and reviews. This is my new central web site in the form of a blog, and a podcast. You will be able to listen to my podcast shows Friction Fiction and The Riff here. I’m writing fiction, podcasting, singing, songwriting and writing poetry all in different places. This is the first time I’ve tried to pull all my fans together on one site, iandsmith.com. So that’s me, Ian D Smith, or Ian Duncan Smith, which is a mildly amusing name to UK citizens because it’s the same name as the failed ex-leader of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, who went out in a blaze of apathy with a terrible speech, “The quiet man just turned up the volume.” Maybe I could change my name to avoid any comparison. But that’s politics. I have three Myspace sites Friction Fiction for the podcast show, The Hexyl Circle and Shedworks for my songs. I blog my Novel at Blogster, and I send out two podcast shows at Libsyn, Friction Fiction, indie Myspace music, and songwriting The Riff. My poetry collection, What You Will See, is available at Gatto Publising. Please look around. I’m writing a second novel, so I’ll be talking about that here. I’m writing songs, so I’ll be publishing those here too. What else? Well, wait and see.
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