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David Keenan

11 months

Completely blown away by this amazing profile @NewStatesman by @Ffranciscodgf w/beautiful testimonies from Ali Smith @WednesdayErskin @leebrackstone & @memorialdevice - it genuinely means so much, I am so moved x

The cult of David Keenan

How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

Went on a pilgrimage to find the grave of the creator of The Magic Roundabout, Serge Danot. Wasn’t quite prepared for how amazing it was.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Remembering our dear friend Brian Hamill @thecommonbreath . The beating heart of Scottish literature, the most generous, gentle and beautiful of boys, a great writer, genius editor and visionary publisher. Never forgotten, till we meet again my brother, all our love x

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David Keenan

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10 months

Utterly heartbroken to lose my brother Peter Brötzmann, the greatest of men and a true 20th century titan. You changed everything for me Peter, I’ll never forget you or the incredible example you showed me. You will live forever in my heart. See you when I get there motherfucker.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Before my dad died he gifted me a painting of the Cliffs of Moher. Yesterday I finally made it there.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Psyched to officially announce - and reveal the cover - of my sixth novel, INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT, the long-coming prequel to my debut THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE, publishing 25/8/22 @WhiteRabbitBks . Airdrie. 1960s. Up in the Sun. Pre-orders open:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Psyched to be able to share this amazing trailer for THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE made by my old school friend and Airdrie bud Martin Clark to celebrate the whole team winning a @TheScotsman Fringe First today 🙏 @edbookfest @lyceumtheatre @memorialdevice

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

5 months

Your boy’s on the cover of today’s @TheScotsman magazine x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

10 months

In order to celebrate the incredible life of Peter Brötzmann @thewiremagazine have made my epic two-part 2012 interview with him available to read for free online. Peter Brötzmann: Last Man Standing

Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941–22 June 2023) - The Wire

As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, as well as Daniel Spicer’s Primer guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings,...

www.thewire.co.uk

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

5 years

Top Tracks For Blowing Your Friend’s Mind Who Hasn’t Heard Them Yet: Lothar and the Hand People - “Space Hymn” Witthuser & Westrupp - “Lasst Uns Auf Die Reise Gehn” Mainliner “M” Whitehouse - “Wriggle Like A Fucking Eel” You?

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Happy birthday dear boy, l’ll never forget you. You taught me that paradise was right here, right now, forever x #AW60

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Merry Christmas everyone in the wonderful @memorialdevice community and big up to @thesociallondon for hosting tonight’s Xmas party, so much love for you all. Me and @wishimage rocking up to the party like:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

Psyched to reveal the covers and open pre-orders for two (!) new novels from me coming in November @WhiteRabbitBks , Xstabeth and its ‘prequel’ The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, the latter an e-book only available with pre-orders!!!

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Had the most wonderful tour of Airdrie today, culminating in a visit to my old stomping ground, the observatory on top of Airdrie Library, where I was reunited with the moon I gifted them when I was 11 years old, forty years ago #thisismemorialdevice

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Paul Higgins is Ross Raymond! Psyched to announce a 16 night run for a full theatrical adaptation of THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE directed by Graham Eatough at this year’s @edbookfest in partnership with @lyceumtheatre Check it out:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

So psyched to finally announce my collaboration with @VerdantBrew - a very special Ltd edition THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE West Coast IPA. This has been a dream come true for me; it goes live on the web store at 10:30am tomorrow morning, get in there:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Big thank you to all of the true believers with your lovely birthday wishes and to everyone who has pre-ordered my new novel, Industry of Magic & Light, @WhiteRabbitBks I am so moved, and enjoying the hell out of being 51 x x x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

It’s here! Very emotional moment unboxing finished copies of MONUMENT MAKER after 10 years of work. Huge thanks to my editor @leebrackstone for his vision and perseverance and to the amazing @WhiteRabbitBks crew for their help in building the monument #trustyourmadness 🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Beyond psyched to officially announce my fifth (!) novel, MONUMENT MAKER, will be published by @WhiteRabbitBks in June 2021. Check out the vid below for a preview and the official cover reveal 🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

5 years

Back home from @durhambookfest after winning the Gordon Burn Prize for my second novel For The Good Times. Thanks to my amazing editor @leebrackstone my brilliant agent @immmy top publicist @joshsm_th and for all the messages and amazing support from everyone, it means so much

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

6 years

Very excited to announce that @FaberBooks will publish my second novel, For The Good Times, in January. Proofs are in and look completely amazing!

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Goodbye 20th Century

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

The Incredible String Band’s Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter is a total work of art, and it’s a beautiful clear evening to welcome the autumn with this magic x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

A Moment That Changed Me: I wrote a very personal piece for @guardian on how I drowned my father in every river in the world then buried him in a ship of death called MONUMENT MAKER.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Peak lockdown: the author in his element 📸⁦ @wishimage ⁩

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Update on Brian Hamill’s disappearance: seems he was last seen at St Enoch’s heading towards the Broomielaw early on Monday morning, please read and RT, and please get in touch Brian if you can, we are so worried and we all love you and want you to come home. @thecommonbreath

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Absolutely blown away by the news that THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE has won a Fringe First award from @TheScotsman - so well deserved, this has been a dream production, big congrats to the legends @phigster @GrahamEatough @Neil_Murray57 @pastels_the @annaorton and all the crew.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Psyched to announce a new expanded edition of ENGLAND’S HIDDEN REVERSE coming next month from @strangepress w/60 pages of additional interviews and reflections. Pre-orders open for limited signed/colour supplement edition:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 months

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to my forever young sweetheart @wishimage x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

How I vanquished the devil, fell in love with David Sylvian, saw UFOs, had Lou Reed give my mum the finger, high-fived Edgar Froese and saw Jap psych legends incapacitated by cream buns... I took the Baker’s Dozen with @JenniferLAllan for @theQuietus

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Psyched to be a guest on @gidcoe tonight (25/10/22) on @BBC6Music talking INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT and playing music from the book as well as from the @memorialdevice theatre production #upinthesun #MAGICandLIGHT - tune in!

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Christ Jayzus it’s here! Wasn’t quite prepared for just how monumental it was gonna be as an actual book but these limited MONUMENT MAKER proofs look incredible! Nearly lost my mind writing this book, can’t believe it is real. So psyched to get it out there, shout if you get one!

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

“The pulse of my writing is about feeling, about going inside it and bringing it back out. The authors I love [who include everyone from Russian master Anton Chekhov to experimental Scottish writer David Keenan], they do it too.” Edna O’Brien at 90 OMFG🙏

Edna O’Brien on turning 90: ‘I can’t pretend that I haven’t made mistakes’

Ireland’s greatest living writer is as ambitious as ever. She talks about working in Nigeria, coping with critics – and one final novel

www.theguardian.com

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Saw my @memorialdevice beer in my favourite local beer shop today. Felt like a superstar. #Valhallasgoat

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Happy publication day to my “gamble with art” and the book of my heart, MONUMENT MAKER, which is out today in the USA and Canada. Huge thanks to Eva and Michael @EuropaEditions for their belief and vision. Can’t wait for it to get into the hands of my American friends x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Didn’t realise I had kept it: found the laptop that I smashed with a hammer after spending a year writing the worst novel of all time. Anyone need any more writing tips, just shout. #howibecameawriter

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Psyched to announce for the first time ever THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE on AUDIO BOOK coming from @WhiteRabbitBks 25/8/22 and read by yrs truly. Because it’s not easy being Lou Reed in Coatdyke. Pre-order to get it on release day:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Editorial on novel number seven in the bag. Coming March 2024 @WhiteRabbitBks #1993

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

11 months

I Give You The End Of A Golden String: paying my respects to the corporeal form and immortal spirit of brother William Blake in London yesterday…

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

MAGIC IS REAL: it’s publication day for INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT! Huge thanks to all the true believers who make all of this such an absolute joy - can’t wait for you all return to a hallucinated Airdrie (and beyond) w/Teddy Ohm’s psychedelic warlords 🙏

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2 years

“They became a band of rumour, of myth and legend; a part of an esoteric folklore concerning a small corner of Scotland, though somehow much bigger than that.” @Bobby_Gant reviews the fabled Mushroom Giro Scene EP by @memorialdevice for @louderthanwar

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

It’s here! One of my most highly-anticipated books of 2021, first time in English for Izumi Suzuki’s sci-fi stories @VersoBooks

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

So much to celebrate tonight. Got my THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE IPA @VerdantBrew as well as finished copies of the US/Canada edition of MONUMENT MAKER publishing this month @EuropaEditions - cheers everyone, so much gratitude for all the joy and beautiful connections on here x

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2 years

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Happiest of birthdays to my perfect Pisces sweetheart @wishimage x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Just arrived in town and already on the CBD-infused IPAs. Manchester is off the chain. Tonight is gonna be wild. Looking forward to seeing everyone at Peste, 7pm, for some MAGIC & LIGHT #hardcoreuproar

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

I wrote a highly personal long read for @GQMagazine on my faith, my relationship to William Blake, XSTABETH, and how I became a writer.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 year

Two Ltd edition tribute IPAs dropping tomorrow from @VerdantBrew and I couldn’t be more blown away to see the THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE West Coast IPA launching alongside the Tom Verlaine/Television tribute LIGHTNING STRUCK ITSELF - two worlds colliding @memorialdevice x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

How beautiful is this?! So excited to announce that my first novel to be officially published in the USA and Canada will be XSTABETH, coming February 2022 thanks to the mighty @EuropaEditions , followed by MONUMENT MAKER in 2023! 🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

11 months

What a night. I was nervous as hell and really emotional to finally meet Adele Bertei, whose two memoirs are completely perfect visions of 20th century rock/roll culture, both of us going from borstals to Bangs and Laughner, thanks to the gods. Thanks everybody for coming out x

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

5 months

THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE comes to Glasgow! Our award winning adaptation is at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow Thursday 28th - Saturday 30th March 2024. Tickets on sale now:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Beautiful gift from my brother Rusty, a print of Neal Fox’s inspired artwork for this years ltd edition @convenanza t-shirts featuring Andrew Weatherall reading “his favourite book” This Is Memorial Device. Just too much, completely blown away 🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

The gift that keeps on giving: another heavy restock of special signed This Is Monorail Device editions of Memorial Device back in stock @Monorail_Music . Get in there:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

9 days

Psyched to announce the soundtrack to THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE by Stephen Pastel & Gavin Thomson w/exclusive liners and photos from me plus amazing artwork by Annabel Wright. Pre-order signed art edition from @Monorail_Music :

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Extremely moved to see this dream review of MONUMENT MAKER in print in @TheTLS today, truly blown away by such a deep reading, huge thanks again to @AnnandWriter 🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

“In 2009, on our honeymoon, my wife and I went in search of Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the west coast of the USA.” I wrote a very personal piece for @thesociallondon about my love for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who will live forever at the age of 101.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

5 years

In Durham for the Gordon Burn Prize tonight! For The Good Times is on the shortlist, let’s do this.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Celebrating the publication of Dance Move with the Queen @WednesdayErskin - third time through and still completely in awe of her sentences, get it here:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

10 months

Congrats to one of our greatest counter-cultural commentators @johnhiggs on the publication of this perfectly-updated magickal masterpiece. Is it heroic? Yes it fucking is x #feedyrhead

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

We’re all very worried about Brian @thecommonbreath please RT and help find him.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

Wow! Blown away by the news that For The Good Times has made the shortlist for the #EncoreAward 2020 @RSLiterature for best second novel!!! Thanks so much to everyone for all the incredible support for my novels, it means so much x

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@reversediorama

2 years

“Why a made-up 80s post-punk band from Airdrie is bringing Scots so much joy” Blown away to see THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE on the cover of today’s Scotland On Sunday! @DaniGaravelli1 brings the #MAGICandLIGHT 🙏✊🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 month

It’s the final day of This Is Memorial Device in Glasgow, two shows today, and what a run it has been, blown away by the whole team’s vision, met so many true believers old and new, and @phigster ’s performance has been completely off the chain. See you all at the aftershow x

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David Keenan

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6 months

MAGIC IS REAL: thanks to @JimLambie2 for inviting me to be the latest artist to present a billboard @SWG3glasgow as part of their on-going Billboard Project. Facing the train to Airdrie too! A spell set on assassinating reality. Make the pilgrimage to magic x

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@reversediorama

4 years

“David Keenan no longer destroys manuscripts. He writes bestsellers instead.” Blown away by this amazing piece in today’s Sunday Times by @sgmcginty about For The Good Times, winning the Gordon Burn Prize and Memorial Device:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

One of my all-time favourite VU snaps. Spring 1968.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

Big thanks to everyone who has written about, raved about, tweeted about, bought and/or otherwise cared for MONUMENT MAKER 🙏Coming after 10 years of solitary work and near madness, it really means so much to see the incredible response x x x @WhiteRabbitBks @leebrackstone

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 months

It’s happening! This Is Memorial Device is coming to London 23rd April to 11th May @RiversideLondon ! Tickets on sale now:

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

A year ago today my second novel For The Good Times won the Gordon Burn Prize and I still can’t quite believe it. A life changing moment and the coolest literary award. Lots of luck to everyone on this year’s shortlist, though can’t deny I’m rooting for Deborah Orr.

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David Keenan

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4 years

#currentlyblastingforever

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David Keenan

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2 years

A book to live and die for, Morley’s masterpiece, so exhilarating in all of its possibilities I felt like I was 17 all over again. God bless Tony Wilson (and Paul Morley) (and Lee Brackstone).

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

1 month

Tonight. I saw all these dead moons circling a star. I did it to stand up for Airdrie. I did it because of Memorial Device.

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

9 months

Finished copies of the new paperback edition of MONUMENT MAKER @WhiteRabbitBks are here! What a moment. I couldn’t be more proud of how beautiful they look. Big thanks to everyone who has helped make everything around this book so perfectly magical. Going back in… #ook

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

I went on a guerilla tour of Edinburgh and read mad passages from THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE to celebrate a final release of tickets for our previously completely sold out run @edbookfest @lyceumtheatre Aug 13-29 Ltd tix:

What's on | Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

Scotland's leading producing theatre

lyceum.org.uk

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2 years

Who writes sentences like @WednesdayErskin ?!? The greatest short story writer of her generation presents a new collection that is *even better* than her debut, Sweet Home. Completely blown away by this, publishing Feb 17 @picadorbooks all hail The Queen 🙏🙏🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

All the phenomenal reviews are spot on: Tenement Kid is an inspired work of high energy rock n roll evangelism from a true believer 🙏🙏🙏

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

9 months

It’s publication day for the paperback of MONUMENT MAKER! Huge thanks to everyone for their support of this book that means everything to me. Bonus video of me hard at work on the Monument in Grez-sur-Loing back in 2018. Splash! Get it here:

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@reversediorama

3 years

Happy birthday to the most demented publisher of his generation, the greatest editor, a one-man counter-cultural revolution and my best mate @leebrackstone x

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@reversediorama

2 years

Spent the morning reading this harrowing but unputdownable book from @StuHennigan - a vital and necessary read, bravo brother x

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1 year

I wrote about my childhood religiosity and the influence of The Bible, The Necronomicon and The Encyclopedia of the Dead on Monument Maker for @lithub to celebrate its publication in the US and Canada by @EuropaEditions

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3 years

WTAF on every level

keefe🍉

@eyeshakingking_

3 years

Takashi Mizutani | 1948 - 2019 👀

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2 years

Back in @Monorail_Music signing another monster re-stock of THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE in time to get ready for the prequel INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT coming from @WhiteRabbitBks 25/8/22 MEMORIAL DEVICE: INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT:

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1 month

Who? We? Yes! To celebrate our first sold-out week of the This Is Memorial Device play, we’re hosting a very special after party @Monorail_Music this Saturday, 9:30 till late, with me and Stephen Pastel DJ-ing MD classics all night plus a few surprises. See you all there!

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4 years

My third novel, XSTABETH, my debut for @WhiteRabbitBks previewed in @GuardianBooks . Coming Nov 2020! “Keenan builds on the female voices of his award-winning debut This Is Memorial Device for a novel about music and love set between Scotland and Russia.”

2020 in books: a literary calendar

Sally Rooney’s screenplay, Hilary Mantel’s final Thomas Cromwell novel … what to look out for this year

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

“The Airdrie-born, Glasgow-based novelist writes like no one else.” Completely blown away: XSTABETH is a @heraldscotland BOOK OF THE YEAR!!! 🙏 @WhiteRabbitBks

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3 years

Honoured to film a tribute yesterday to the late Brian Hamill @thecommonbreath to be screened as part of the Scottish Publisher Showcase on August 17 @edbookfest

Edinburgh International Book Festival

@edbookfest

3 years

The showcase will be chaired by Scottish broadcaster and author @sallymag1 , and include filmed appearances by outgoing Makar @JackieKayPoet , Scotland’s very own Queen of Crime Fiction, @valmcdermid , and the inimitable @reversediorama .

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3 years

“I no longer want a book with a point because once you’ve taken that point on board that book is solved and I don’t want art that can be solved.” Me and XSTABETH interviewed for @ObserverUK @WhiteRabbitBks @leebrackstone

David Keenan: 'I no longer want a book with a point'

The Scottish author on life as a music journalist, writing about the Troubles and why he happily lost the plot in his new novel

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Incredibly excited to announce the paperback of XSTABETH isappearing Nov 23rd @WhiteRabbitBks which includes the first printing of my elusive third novel, the prequel/sequel THE TOWERS THE FIELDS THE TRANSMITTERS, in print for the first time double paperback style!

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2 years

Psyched to announce a new book: Brotzmann/Bennink/Keenan - Schwarzwaldfahrt 1977. An amazing collection of original photos from the duo’s trip to the Black Forest with a major essay by me plus a CD of the original recordings. Pre-order @Monorail_Music 👇

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8 months

Blown away to get a namecheck on the forthcoming @DavidHolmes____ Necessary Genius @weare1of100 t-shirt (and track) - check that list! Sign up to be the first to know when it drops:

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2 years

ENTER THE LIGHT: they’re here and I couldn’t be more blown away, how gorgeous do these look?! Finished copies of INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT @WhiteRabbitBks : pick up a pre-release copy this weekend @edbookfest or pre-order special editions while they last:

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@reversediorama

2 years

“Such an incredible community has sprung up around Memorial Device. People read it, and it becomes their story.” Me & Stephen @pastels_the spoke to @Nicola_Meighan for @festmag on the cult of @memorialdevice and all of the magic it has inspired 🙏

Interviews: David Keenan and Stephen Pastel

A Breath of Fresh Airdrie: David Keenan and Stephen Pastel chat about adapting hallucinatory novel This Is Memorial Device

www.festmag.com

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2 years

Back at my favourite place today, had dreams all my life that I lived here, looking a little worse for wear these days but still completely in love with her #thisismemorialdevice #MAGICandLIGHT

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1 month

A final circumambulation of the Holy Land before we head into the first week of the THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE theatre production, looking forward to seeing all of the true believers at The Tron in Glasgow this Wed-Sat x

The Lyceum

@lyceumedinburgh

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Dive into the fictional history of legendary 1980s post-punk band Memorial Device, in This is Memorial Device ⚡ 🎤 27 - 30 March, @trontheatre 🎤 3 - 6 April, @traversetheatre 🎤 18 - 20 April, @APAWhatsOn 🎤 23 April - 30 May, @RiversideLondon 🎟️

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Fantastic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from Stewart Lee of THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE @edbookfest @lyceumtheatre @WhiteRabbitBks

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

2 years

Blown away to discover that the artist Alfred Sisley painted almost the exact cover shot of MONUMENT MAKER 129 years ago: 2018/1893

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

4 years

Here’s the 2nd CD-R Faber issued on their short-lived CD-R label, w/original tracks by Chinese Moon and Steel Teeth plus a mental Weatherall remix of Kazoo Icing Compass. Long OOP but I have 5 copies to give away, RT to win, winners chosen at random. #thisismemorialdevice

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David Keenan

@reversediorama

3 years

MONUMENT MAKER JUNE 2021 @WhiteRabbitBks

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