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| The Acid Real, a new collection of prose, poetry and essays went on sale late
in 2009.
The book, which like all of John's publications, is refereshingly innovative in both it's content and design, features new work from John and illustrations by Marita Forss. Again, this book is difficult to categorise – it even has a song list! The Acid Real is priced at £5.99 is available from leading bookshops and online from all leading retailers, like amazon, gwales etc. If you have any difficulties obtaining a copy, please let us know. |
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Please click on the individual pages below to read the reviews yourself.
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Messthtics #104, an album, featuring songs recorded in the 1970's by John's punk band The Tax Exiles has just been released by the USA based Messthetics record label. For further information go to the News and Music pages here, or to read some early reviews, please click on the logo's above.
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John Evans is one of Wales' most uncompromising and original contemporary artists and writers. He started his career as a singer/songwriter signed to the Situation 2 arm of Beggars Banquet Records. For the last seven years has worked as a full-time writer and filmmaker and has become the leading figure in the New Wave of Welsh writing. His work has been described variously as post-punk, post-modern and even 'impossible to categorise'. Throughout - from his underground films, or his most recent books Industria and G.B.H. - he breaks the boundaries and conventions of traditional forms to combine words and images in an innovative style which is both fascinating and repellent. The interest and acclaim for Evans' work has spread throughout the U.K. and beyond. Best-selling author Iain Sinclair describes him as 'a hot and necessary item in an evidently grim landscape', while others see him as 'the authentic voice of the street - the death rattle of post-industrial Britain'. His work has also been compared to writers like Kathy Acker, William Burroughs, Alain Robbe- Grillet, Henry Rollins, Irvine Welsh, and bands like Pere Ubu, Joy Division and the Manic Street Preachers. During 2004, in a public poll to find the "greatest Welsh men and women of all time", John Evans was voted at number 27 out of a list of 100 names also nominated by the public.
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"John Evans is probably the only writer in Wales today whose work appeals to a generation raised on music, TV and contemporary art. His books and writing style are as challengingly, contemporary as a piece of art by say Damien Hurst...He is a leader in his field of work. Everything he writes is groundbreaking, and touches the heart of matter in the subjects that matter most to the Welsh nation." - 100 Welsh Heroes. "These are among the pieces that confirm Evans as a vibrant as well as challenging modern writer. He won me over, and I began to understand why he made 27 in the larges-ever online poll, 100 Welsh Heroes ahead of Dafydd ap Gwilym and behind only Dylan and RS Thomas of the poets." - Steve Dube, Western Mail "Like Pere Ubu did for Cleveland in the Seventies, Joy Division for Manchester, and Nirvana for Seattle in the early Nineties, Evans has that rare gift of capturing a time, place and culture in his writings about his native South Wales Valleys." - Kulture Vulture. "For 22 years I’ve waited for the emergence of this man." - Chris Torrance, Writer. "Evans is being hailed as Wales' answer to Irvine Welsh. Some would say he's more talented." - Y Faner Goch. "John Evans is a hot and necessary particle in an evidently grim landscape." Iain Sinclair, Writer. "Writer John Evans demolishes the daffodil imagery of the Valleys at a stroke...His writing appears frighteningly realistic." - The Big Issue. "Some observers believe he leads the way of New Wave urban writing in Wales, while others feel his gritty realism is too profane."- Observer. "John Evans is the voice of the disaffected, alienated youth of the south Wales valleys, the street voice of post-industrial Britain rattling to its death.." - Morning Star.
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