My new novel. It starts with the award-winning, BBC broadcast prologue, "The Orphan and the Mob", and continues with Jude's quest for True Love in Tipperary, Galway, the Aran Islands, and Dublin... Love, death, arson, philosophy, and sex. Starring Jude, an orphan who looks the spit of Leonardo DiCaprio. Except for having two penises. Which makes True Love... complicated.
Forum (Talk Talk Talk...) > An Apology.... And a request....
Steve, I would love, more than life itself, to meet up with you and your girlfriend for New Year's Eve, but tragically the stars (cursed stars!) are not aligned, and I won't be in Berlin that week.
You will have a splendid time without me, though, it's a marvellous city and they know how to celebrate. If you've forgotten how to celebrate, they will help you.
Thanks for the review in Ireland's Mail on Sunday. I hadn't heard about it, nor had my publisher or agent (I'm in Berlin, they're in London, so we miss a lot of the Irish press, unless friends send me a copy.) I would give good money for a copy or three. Is there any way you could send me either a paper copy or a pdf of the page? I'll email you my address etc.
Hope you have a wild old time seeing in 2008 in Berlin. You have chosen wisely. Wrap up warm and dance all night...
You will have a splendid time without me, though, it's a marvellous city and they know how to celebrate. If you've forgotten how to celebrate, they will help you.
Thanks for the review in Ireland's Mail on Sunday. I hadn't heard about it, nor had my publisher or agent (I'm in Berlin, they're in London, so we miss a lot of the Irish press, unless friends send me a copy.) I would give good money for a copy or three. Is there any way you could send me either a paper copy or a pdf of the page? I'll email you my address etc.
Hope you have a wild old time seeing in 2008 in Berlin. You have chosen wisely. Wrap up warm and dance all night...
November 25, 2007 |
Julian Gough
Julian Gough
Hello Sir, I'm a journalist from Dublin (it's in Ireland) who's had the pleasure of following your career from popette to published author and am enjoying the continuing saga... My most recent foray into your orbit was a review of 'Jude: Level One' for Ireland's Mail On Sunday, the frankly rave review was marred slightly by a reference to "Dublin band Toasted Heretic...." which I assure you was a sub-editor's gaffe and not mine own... My apologies, Julian... Such a band could only have come from Galway (or perhaps Cork) as my unfeasibly youthful yet gratiuitously heavy-handed Sub would have known were she old enough to remember the Group Cert...But I digress...
I find that I will in the city of Berlin for New Year's Eve 2007 and wonder if you'd be around for a chat? (Socially, ie not for print!!) We HAVE in fact met before, though of course you'll not remember (and what pleasure it will give Julian to
realise that he is indeed the kind of artist who now meets people that he doesn't in fact remember... Regrettable but also faintly fabulous...Wink!) and I would take fond pleasure in re-introducing myself...
It may well be that you are no longer in Germany or won't be on that date, or indeed can't be arsed to meet some fawning journo fan and his girlfriend who happen, through brave if perhaps unthought-through planning, to endeavour to celebrate the birth of 2008 in a city neither have ever visited previously... In which case I can only say that your band was over-rated and your novels, particularly the sublimely affecting 'Juno and Juliet', suck...
However, if you would do me the honour of a response to this missive I would glow with happiness and continue, as I have for some time, to celebrate your considerable achievemets as a unique voice in Irish art... All smart, no arse...
Forgive the wordy coquettishness of this note.... I AM writing to Julian Gough, you know...
Regards and respect, Juluian