Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:14 AM
David
Adieu rock and roll dream; Dave Chislett writes a book
Renowned journalist Fred De Vries interviewed David Chislett for The Weekender a while back... here is the unabridged version.
"Music journalist Dave Chislett has written a book. Or: the doyen of
Joburg alternative culture has assembled over a dozen of short stories
he has written over the last fifteen years and with the help of Ge’ko
publishers has turned them into a collection.
Chislett himself
would prefer the second depiction, because one of the reasons for him
to publish this anthology, he stresses repeatedly, is that he’s eager
to move away from the limiting label ‘music writer’.
“I do a
lot more than that and always have’, he says in a coffee shop in
Linden, not far from his flat. “I far rather have people know me as a
writer who does music and other things as well. I’m interested in so
many other crazy things that I don’t wanna get stuck as a music
writer.”
To read the full article, click here
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