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Geoff Cush

Sabotaging since 10 Oct 2011

Q magazine credited Geoff Cush with inventing a new genre - social science fiction, with his 1987 satire on Thatcherism, God Help The Queen. (Abacus) More recently he has waded into the murky waters of post-colonial fiction with Son of France (Vintage 2002), set in a counterfactual New Zealand that has been colonised by Paris rather than London. A play, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals was performed at The Lycric Hammersmith, in 1993. He also claims credit for having written the script for the first professional tour of a play based on a Terry Pratchett novel. Guards! Guards! with Paul Darrow as Vimes, married the Discworld cult to Blakes' Seven to striking effect. A lesser know fact about that tour was that it also starred former Flying Pickett, David Brett as Corporal Nobbs These days Geoff divides his time between the UK and New Zealand, wherever there is summer and a place to write. Geoff's new book, Nellcote Revisited, is a co-written memoir of a summer spent with the Rolling Stones in 1971..

My Articles

People

A Tribute To The Pin-Ups of The Sixties

To be a successful pin-up in the sixties you had to be serious about your work. Here’s a tribute to some of the women who did it best…

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Life

Salivia: The Mind-Blowing Legal High That Sends You Loopy

Just when you thought the nanny state had finally gotten the better of us, someone started selling a mind-blowing plant extract called Salvia on the high street.

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Travel

Crossing Australia On The Indian Pacific

A cross-country trip from Sydney to Perth certainly sounds lovely, but the reality of living aboard a rickety old train for three days is rather less appealing.

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Life

The March For England: Let’s Keep The Far Right Far Away

They promised a march of thousands, but only 150 members of the EDL made the journey down to Brighton on St George’s Day. Still, that’s 150 too many.

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Film

Limitless: Unlock Your Potential With Robert De Niro

LIMITLESS came out last year and perhaps we can all learn something from it

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Music

The Monkees: The Inside Story of The Prefab Four

In early 1966, America sent out it’s casting call for four boys to play The Monkees, and it all went from there…

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Life

Forget Legalising Weed, Just Smoke Red Dragon Instead

Smoking the genetically modified Red Dragon had me pondering Richard Branson’s plans to market cannabis with low levels of HTC.

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Life

After 25 Years Of Binge Drinking, I’m Looking Forward To The Next 25

I truly wish anyone who has given up the booze god speed, but it won’t be happening to me. A world without booze is a world I don’t want to live in….

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Music

Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon And The Men They Chewed Up And Spat Out

Men beat a path to their door, they unwittingly shared lovers and remain the standard for all female solo rock singers.

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Books

Nellcôte Revisited

In the summer of 1971 Clarrie Cooper lived at Villa Nellcote, Keith Richards’ fabled mansion in the South of France where The Stones recorded their masterpiece, Exile on Main Street. Here Clarrie has a chance meeting with her old schoolfriend, Anita Pallenberg.

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Film

Somewhere: Sofia Coppola’s Sexist Agenda

She’s been the darling of Sundance and is the offspring of cinematic royalty, but Sofia Coppola’s latest efforts is a sexist ode to a lost childhood…

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