David F. Ross

Morrissey Built My Bookshelf

I didn’t read a lot as a child. Mine wasn’t family background that encouraged reading. I do not recall there being books in our house and perhaps as a result, I was always more interested in other things: music and football, mainly. Time being the most valuable commodity there is, ideas for my own writing now – and the things that inspire me creatively – still usually come from other sources; from visual media and, as the quoted reviewer above has accurately pinpointed, from music.

The Comedown

Like a masturbating Notre Dame gargoyle, Like Marty Feldman failing a G-Force test, Like ‘Terrahawks’ Zelda in Botox Shocker!’ Like a demonic dermatologist’s carpet Like a scrotum stretched across the Alps, Like a pumpkin carved by Stevie Wonder, Like a Morris dancer in an Exploited gig, Like a toddlers Etch-a-Sketch doodle, Like a geriatric warthog tripping on LSD. Like the wind changed and it stayed like this …

Tidelines Book Festival

Return to News News & Events Tidelines Book Festival presents Stuart Cosgrove’s ‘Hey America!’David will be chairing this event and talking to Stuart about his new book ‘Hey America!’, an epic story about Black Music and the White House (tickets available form the link below). Visit Page

There’s only one Danny Garvey

Return to News News & Events Signed copies of ‘There’s Only One Danny Garvey’ will be on sale at A State Of Mind’s pop-up shop launch at St James Quarter, Edinburgh.