His very dark materials.....
is incredible! Dear Spider, love, the fly. As dark and macabre a fairy story as the brothers Grimm, but written two centuries later in a house in Belfast.Ìý
It's the creation of musician Colin Reid who was a professional guitar player for as long as I can remember.Ìý
The last time I spoke to him was a few years back when he had just started writing and was experimenting with publishing these fairy stories online, pretty much works in progress. It made me think of Dickens publishing his novels in weekly installments.Ìý
He hung up his guitar for nearly three years and put his life and soul into the dark creation of Herman Allsop and his Circus of grotesques.Ìý
Fifteen stories later, the first one has just been made into a motion comic. Ep 1 is free to download as an app on the iphone. It has a body of genius local craftsmen and women who all gave their services for free because they believed in the project.ÌýIt deserves much wider recognition.
And best of all, Colin has picked up the guitar again and will be performing music from Dear Spider and Other Stories at the newly renovated Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast at the end of April.Ìý
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