THE STORIES SO FAR

I went to Liverpool in August of 2017 and everything changed. Three years and five books later, my time in the MUniverse is done. My conversation with Johnny Lemuria sums things up quite nicely. All my books are still available direct from the author, with free stamps and maybe an unreleased play chucked in, so […]

IT ALL STARTS HERE…

In the latest in the SEEKER podcast series, Ken Campbell describe the bizarre and extraordinary endeavour of staging the legendary counter-culture novel Illuminatus. This was the first production for The Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool.

JERUSALEM AND 2023

I’ve finally finished Alan Moore’s JERUSALEM. Twice. Read the book. Listened to the audiobook. One echoing the other. Sometimes the audiobook brought out the nuances of previously digested text. Sometimes the book highlighted the beauty of the written word on the page. I started JERUSALEM in November of 2017. I finished off the audiobook of […]

TOP OF THE POPS 12/3/87

https://youtu.be/tPRiuM8VNjs Missing from the current BBC 4 reruns as a result of a dodgy contract for Mike Smith. The full line-up for the show was: Alison Moyet – cover Jackie Wilson – Inexplicable plasticine revival follow up Nick Kamen – Levi’s model Freddie Mercury – cover Beastie Boys – white boy rap Boy George – […]

THE JAMs DON’T DO SIDEKICKS

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LET YOUR LONE RANGER RIDE WITH BILL DRUMMOND

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FOREVER CHAPTER 5

Available from Amazaba or stamped with a postcard from the author. Here’s the popular Chapter 5 for free. Chapter 5 SINGLE LADIES Boyd King was asleep. This was how he liked to travel. Since he was a small boy, he’d always slept through journeys. Car, boat, aeroplane and now rocket into space. Faced with a […]

PIGSPURT’S DAUGHTER (SLIGHT RETURN)

Now available in four chunks of delightful gastromancy. More here. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Interview Also available as Apple Podcasts When Daisy Campbell was six, she went with her father, Ken Campbell, to visit the Czech film director Otakar Votocek. “The daughter will go farther than her father,” Votocek pronounced, in […]

KLF – THE SITCOM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06x3pn5 Preview Other JAMs related plays are available

BRING BACK MINCE PIES

As the accidental curator of The 400 Remix Project, I had the pleasure of being the first to hear each wonderful contribution as it landed in my inbox. This would often take place through headphones, in a darkened room and would invariably lead to a spine-tingling few minutes as the jigsaw pieces of this awe-inspiring […]