And the Oh, Hello and welcome to Backlisted the podcast that gives new life to old books.

Today you find us in downtown Memphis in the small slightly echoy studio at 706 Union Avenue, home of

Sam Phillips Sun Records.

It's a sultry evening.

Everyone's relaxed.

The so does flowing, but there are storm clouds gathering outside.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowd fund the books

they really want to read.

And I'm Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously.

Joining us today are David Keenan, hello David.

Hey David Keenan, novelist, one-time musician and critic whose work in particular for The

Wire has introduced a wider audience to experimental rock noise, folk, industrial and psychedelic music.

He's also published books on England's esoteric underground, Tarot and two highly acclaimed novels, both published by Faber.

The first, this is Memorial Device, winner of the 2018 Collier Bristow London magazine prize

and earlier this year, for the Good Times,

Chris, Christophs, and song covered at one stage by Elvis Presley, I believe.

And by Perry Como, which was kind of where I was coming from.

That novel was described by Suzanne Moore as a cult transformative,

difficult, fantastic.

David once claimed that his favourite beetle was Yoko.

Stell, stand by that to the sea.

Listeners.

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