Volcanic Tongue by David Keenan - * Signed Edition - Pre-Order 27th March 2025*

This is the pre-order page for Volcanic Tongue by David Keenan. Your order will be fulfilled upon publication: 27th March 2025.

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David
Keenan's music writing. Keenan has been writing about music since publishing his first
fanzine, inspired by The Pastels and Scotland’s DIY music scene, in 1988. Since then, he
has written about music for Melody Maker, NME, Uncut, Mojo, The New York Times, Ugly
Things, The Literary Review, The Social and, most consistently, The Wire. Volcanic Tongue
was also the name of the record shop and mail order that Keenan ran with his partner
Heather Leigh in Glasgow from 2005-2015.

Volcanic Tongue features the best of his reviews, interviews and think pieces, with exclusive in-depth conversations between Keenan and Nick Cave, members of revered industrial bands Coil and Throbbing Gristle, krautrock legends like Faust, Shirley Collins, the first lady of English folk, Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, German auto-destructives
Einstürzende Neubauten, as well as discographical analysis of the back catalogues of Sonic
Youth and John Fahey, extensive writings on free jazz and obsessive in-depth digs into
favourites like Pere Ubu, Metal Box-era Public Image Ltd, Sun Ra, guitarist and vocalist
John Martyn and many more. It is an essential addition to any music fan's bookshelf and a
primer for the crème-de-la-crème of avant-garde listening.