Acid digestion – Terry Farley seeks publisher for new book

A look through the piles of stocking-fillers and Christmas presents that didn’t quite hit the mark last month will uncover all kinds of shite-awful books that somehow found their way to a publisher and onto shelves at your local Waterstones.

For every ‘How to Avoid Huge Ships‘ (this is an actual published book) there is a gem that never takes its rightful place on the shelves. So far that has been the story of a masterpiece from house legend Terry Farley. In his book, ‘Before Jack had a Groove‘, co-written by Raoul Galloway, Terry gives his unique insight into the sequence of history that gave rise to acid house and the so-called ‘second summer of love’.

The book is centred around the infamous “King’s Road and the scene around Acme Attractions and Sex.” Among the acid trailblazers interviewed for the book are Acme Eric, Andrew Weatherall, and Norman Jay.

The book has been sent to Test Pressing who have a first chapter for your perusal. The hope is that a publisher will snap it up and give us all a chance to knowledge ourselves about the roots and culture of the early days of UK house, curated by the man at the heart of acid-zine Boy’s Own.

On the flip side of non-musical dance endeavours, we ask you “what have Calvin Harris, Will Smith, and Jay-Z got to do with dance music?” The answer being of course, not a lot. Not a lot at all. But that hasn’t stopped them teaming up together with a “half-hour comedy series” in the pipeline, somehow based on ‘electronic dance music’.

Whether or not that is actual dance music or EDM isn’t clear, which suggests to us that to the people behind the venture there is no distinction. Irvine Welsh is writing the show which adds a modicum of credence to the debacle given the success of his book ‘The Acid House’ but with input from millionaire, non-raver Calvin Harris, being bankrolled by Jay-Z’s Marcy Media and the Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, we do wonder how Welsh will portray the ‘EDM’ scene for an American audience.

The show will be on HBO and perhaps all you need to know is that none of the info so far released by the American TV network mentions much about content, just what famous names are involved.