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except a documentary was just made about house gigs in manchester between 2003 and 2006, so fuck knows, maybe

"Feeel laaak iii ahhhhm juurrrrssse tooo cloooose to love yoooooooou" song?

Especially if there's a big bit about Codeine in it. I was looking for a book on Codeine recently. Is there one?

do it anyway.

(it's not like many books make money anyway). A smaller press, maybe one with a music focus might conceivably be interested if it heard a good pitch and got a decent sample though. I doubt they'd offer much of an advance though, if at all, you though you could make some money from sales eventually.

Maybe it's a good project for self publishing? Do it for Kindle or similar, set the price at a reasonable level, and you get 70%. It's a niche enough market that people who are interested would buy it, and and you could target advertising quite effectively if you got the support of different bands/labels/websites.

But write it anyway, it's not about the money man.

I'm not sure it's that much of a longshot. name it after a Low record.

seriously though, I probably wouldn't be interested in reading a book on the scene unless it was by someone who lived through it. or at least featuring a lot of contrubutions from those people

if you could get the right people on board, though, then you might have a project. it basically has to be a slowcore 'Our Band...'.

what kind of scope are you thinking of, re: bands? would you go as far as the Kranky types? Burnt Hair Records, Duster, the whole mid/late 90s US space rock and drone scene?

self-publish a nice paperback or something. they launched over here a few weeks ago, my friends just used it to raise like £5k to do an audio sitcom they've written.

I finally got round to listening to Galaxie 500 this weekend, incredible. Slightly annoyed I had not caught up with them earlier!

I do lots of boring publishing production things so feel free to PM me about that side of things if you have specific questions about typesetting, printing, distribution etc.

I'd love to read it, but shockingly I (and indeed the DiS forum) may not be representative of the population at large in this regard...

not sure how long it will take to me write a whole book. couple week?

I drink it all up

Have you considered using something like https://leanpub.com/ to publish it?

but I would like to read your book and learn

yes

One of my younger colleagues from the staff room, Garrett, is a follower of the slow core movement. We had a conversation about the prospect of your book before the holidays and he was very interested. I am afraid I can't remember many details but he did say he was willing to spend anywhere in the region of twenty pounds. Garrett is a man of his word, unlike many in his age bracket.