Full Description
Aromabingo builds on the critical success of David Gaffney's 2006 collection Sawn-off Tales, offering yet more of Gaffney's weird and edgy ultra-shorts, plus several longer works, so you can spend even more time inside the baffling, hilarious and sometimes moving world of a David Gaffney story. Think Magnus Mills mashed with the League of Gentlemen with a jolt of Mark E. Smithery for grit, and you're nearly there. Though many of his stories are shorter than a Napalm Death snarl, these precision-engineered slivers of fiction leave you with the dying chords of a symphony. They are about the small people, the tiny Tardis folk with cathedrals inside them, creeping by unnoticed. These tales will have you laughing like at a Tommy Cooper video though there's something hideous gnawing at the door to get in. Be careful, a spoonful weighs a ton.
Contents
1. 45 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE:
Art Movement
The Kids from Film Noir
Pretty, Ain't It?
All Mod Cons
Sniffin' Glue
Still in Box
Speaking in Pantone
Die like a Rock
Great Inventions # 1
Lucky Winner
A Good Deal
Through the Medium of Modern Dance
Great Inventions # 2
Smaller than One Eightieth the Diameter of a Human Hair
Blurred Girls
The Secret Pictures of David Cameron
The Newt Lady's Dead Now
The Life of Riley
You've Chosen to be Excited
Great Inventions # 3
Are We Romping Now?
Clown-Time is Over
The Accused Made Spider Furniture
Container Driver
Using the Facilities
When Chairs Attack
Shooting Lulu
A Feel for Format
Grockel Bashing
Cleaning up New York
Aromabingo
2. TWELVE-INCH SINGLES:
The Happiness Well
Last Chance to Turn Around
You and You Alone
Only the Stones Remain
In the Days Before Trickery
The Nineteen Seventy-Six Trouser Famine
Who reads this story will not sin
What Would Bill Hicks Do?
Mean Picking
The Last Northerner
3. LONG PLAYERS:
This is About Dixie
Finding Skerryvore
Does Anyone Care for You on a Regular Basis?
Special Pudding
Guided by Voices
Gossamer
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
