Are there any books about Talk Talk?

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I tried to ask this within one of the old book threads, but it didn't refresh to new answers. Anyway, are there?

― jackl (jackl), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, shit, it turns out that it did in fact make it to new answers here:

so administrators or whomever, please delete this thread!

― jackl (jackl), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

there's no book that i know of, but there's a really good article on them in MOJO this month (or last month, i dunno, i just read it).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Mark Hollis starts a band. Label makes them New Romantic. Mark Hollis shoots up and goes crazy. Lable dumps them. Nobody cares until THE INTERNET finds out they invented POST ROCK.

Do you really need a book for that, ace?

― Esteban Buttez Goes To College, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

not anymore, esteban. I hate talk talk now.

― jackl (jackl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a good article on the recording of Laughing Stock in an issue of Tape Op from a few years back...it's more about the people than the technology...worth a read.

― bobby.lasers (bobby.lasers), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

jackl did you read the MOJO thing online? I missed the issue it was in but would liek to read the piece.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Not likely to be too exciting a read is it?

― Dadaismus sinks his soul in Mother Nature's bower (Dada), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't been able to find the mojo thing yet, nick. Does anyone have a link?

― jackl (jackl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I've had a good search online for that Mojo article, can't find it anywhere. I suspect it will be a thorough and workman-like account, interesting mainly due to the apparentpaucity of information on a very interesting band...

― gekopell, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

surely one of the many writers on ILM wants to write a book? WRITE A BOOK, SOMEONE!

― jackl (jackl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

the Mojo article was decent...basically they sounded like pretty boring, sort of assholish dude, esp. the main guy....nothing too compelling abt. them outside of the music, at least based on that article...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

s'probably the not-being-on-junk factor... still would be interesting to know a tad more over and above the rough schematic...

― gek-opel, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/

a nice fansite, check the "interviews" section

― Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen (arnart1802), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Has anybody got that Mojo Talk Talk article? I can't find it online anywhere.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

It's in me bathroom.

Doesn't MH get very 'sue' if 'shooting up' is mentioned wrt himself?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno. The assistant manager in Exeter Virgin megastore claimed today that he'd had Mark Hollis in the shop the other day. He's a mate of my brother but I think he's full of shit...

Mark, any chance of scanning me the article or something?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll see what I can do, in the words of Jarvis fronting "Jarvis'll fix it"

Which ones the mate of your brother? not that it matters...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

The guy who works at Virgin, sadly.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

... who is also the person fullashit, not MH, right? Not that that matters either, MH may well be.

I have a promo of his solo album somewhere, I played it but can't remember much about it. and it seems to have dissolved away somewhere....

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a promo of his solo album somewhere, I played it but can't remember much about it

Yes, I don't remember that one exactly shooting up the charts... oops! Sorry Mark!

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Aye, the Virgin guy is fullashit. Hollis might be...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

talk, guys, talk! talk mo'!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

are there any talking books about talk talk ? The Talk Talk Talk Book ?

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd love that scan too, mark, if you get a chance.

― jackl (jackl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Watch this space:

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Nick, let me know when you get that. (S'only fair he's first)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got a copy here too and can scan...

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks very much mark!

― jackl (jackl), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Got it!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Right: Open access (sort of) here shortly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

The Talk Talk Talk Talk Book Book Book

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Many thanks!

― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

indeed, thanks.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Interesting article, supposedly just about Spirit of Eden but a good roundup of the band's history in general.

The Laughing Stock sessions sounded really grim. I loved the story of the one-note solo in 'After the Flood' about which one of the guys says 'this is the end … after one note there's no notes', like he's staring into the abyss. Laughing Stock for me does sort of seem like the end of music - I can't really imagine something that could logically follow it (Merzbow or Bernard Gunter maybe).

The little sidebar on arty records of the eighties was useful - I'll have to track down the ones I haven't heard.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

That YSI link is not working. I really want to read that article if it focuses on Spirit of Eden.

― Grand Epic (Grand Epic), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I just tested it, it does work. Try again / somewhere else...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

or another browser. it works fine.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow. Thanks for that, Mark.

― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

There is this, it's down to 30 quid now:
http://spiritoftalktalk.com/

― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link

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