Sunday 28 February 2010

Podcast # 3: Circulating

My third podcast features the story Circulating, which is taken from my book Spell.

This is perhaps one of my most-read stories. It was originally published on Pulp, in January 2006, under the title Circles. After its appearance in Spell, it was published in issue 4 of Fissure magazine in October 2008. Thanks also to my friend 'peaceful', for posting a link to the Pulp version on a crop circle internet forum, which no doubt attracted a fair number of readers who would otherwise not have encountered my work.

Link to download: http://darrenfrancis.brinkster.net/podcast3circulating.mp3

Don't forget you can now subscribe to my podcast directly using iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/darren-francis-podcast/id357427902

 
Crop circle photograph courtesy of Peter Sorensen.

Monday 22 February 2010

Subscribing to my Podcast via iTunes

You can now subscribe directly to my podcast in iTunes by clicking this link:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/darren-francis-podcast/id357427902

Though be sure to keep an eye on this blogspot page too as obviously any non-podcast related news posts and updates here won't be downloadable from iTunes.

My new podcast will be available in the next day or so.

Friday 19 February 2010

God Thing

A few years back I wrote a piece called God Thing, which was specifically crafted to be recorded as a spoken word-with music project by myself and a friend. The collaboration never happened for various reasons, but recently - following my house move and renewed enthusiasm for writing and creativity after a fairly dark period in my life - I've decided to record it all myself.

There are eight tracks altogether:

1. W9GFO
2. Black Olives
3. Fissure King
4. God, Love, Money And Other Snares
5. Will I Dream
6. Scarecrow
7. The Hills Are Alive
8. Hollowed Be Thy Meme

You can hear demo versions of some of these tracks on my myspace music page. At some point in the near future I'll be making much more polished versions of all the tracks available for download (and - possibly - on CD).

The original text of God Thing was published in my book Spell. You can read a version of Black Olives on my main myspace page. You can buy a copy of Spell here.