Dark Scene 500

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Update – February 2024

I’ve been quiet in recent months, but I can now say the draft of the ‘Dark Scene 500’ (final title to be determined) is complete.  I’m now looking into options for external editing and publishing.  Expect to hear a LOT more when this process begins in earnest.  Thanks go to everyone who came to me with ideas and suggestions.  There’s still a long way to go before this thing becomes reality, but the part I do largely on my own is done now.

Meanwhile, I’m going through my older writings and updating them to 2024 status.  To start with, I revisited my old Infest retrospective, which now covers the festival in it’s current incarnation.

Infest – A Personal Retrospective

Update – December 2022

There isn’t much Terminates Here DJ activity at the moment (none, actually), but progress on my ‘Dark Scene 500’ book continues.   I’m well over halfway through the first draft, and I’ll soon be at the stage where I’ll be asking for help.  Specifically, I will be looking for some expertise in certain sub-genres which haven’t featured heavily in my own scene experiences, but I know are too important to leave out. 

As for getting the thing published, self-publication seems to be the way to go these days.   I’m hoping crowdfunding will be a cost-effective way of paying for this, given I’m not seeking any personal financial gain from this endeavour.  As a sign of good faith, I won’t start this process until I know the text is close to the “finishing line”, given the real costs of self-publishing don’t really come into play until after the text is drafted.  

The one area where I’m really stuck, and looking for suggestions – finding an editor.  Google searching mainly seems to yield US-oriented editors practised in either academic texts or works of fiction, and this book is none of these things.  So if anyone has any ideas for how to find someone who could help get a mammoth tome about obscure musical styles written in colloquial (sometimes cynical) British English into some kind of publishable shape, please get in touch.