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Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340682655
Territory: UK and Commonwealth
Formats: Mass market paperback (288 Pages)
Release date: 5 February 1997
Doves, Playboys, Dollars, Apples, Swans, White Burgers, Brown Burgers, Dennis the Menaces, Rhubarb & Custards, White Callies, Pink Flamingoes, Snowballs, Kinder Eggs, Energizers, Hammer & Sickles, Disco Biscuits ...
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Acid House, Disco Biscuits is an anthology of new stories capturing the hedonistic spirit of the last decade - from illegal raves to corporate club culture. It includes nineteen anarchic, out-there tales of drugs, sex, dancefloors, dealers, police and DJs.
At a warehouse party in '88 rival football hooligans are united in Ecstasy. In the sweltering heat of a Mediterranean Island, things get very strange when a hypnotist is employed to brainwash clubbers. In a future Manchester, sinful dancing and natural-born DJs are outlawed.
Riots erupt when an outdoor party is busted by the police, the sound being sampled and amplified through the speakers. A chill-out club goes disasterously wrong, with the arrival of a psychotic ex-con, fresh out of jail. A drunken night out becomes surreal with the discovery of a mystery suitcase.
In Thailand a 'beach guru' makes preparations for a Full Moon Party. And chaos descends on a holiday jet to Alicante when a jungle sound-system begins broadcasting through the cabin PA...
Contents
Nicholas Blincoe 'Ardwick Green'
Mike Benson 'Room Full Of Angels'
Irvine Welsh 'The State of the Party'
Gavin Hills 'White Burger Danny'
Martin Millar 'How Sunshine Star-Traveller Lost His Girlfriend'
Michael River 'Electrovoodoo'
Kevin Williamson 'Heart Of The Bass'
Jonathan Brook 'Sangria'
Charlie Hall 'The Box'
Ben Graham 'Weekday Service'
Jeff Noon 'DJNA'
Douglas Rushkoff 'The Snow that Killed Manuel Jarrow'
Dean Cavanagh 'Mile High Meltdown'
Two Fingers 'Puff'
Alex Garland 'Blink and You Miss It'
Matthew De Abaitua 'Inbetween'
Q 'The Sparrow'
Alan Warner 'Bitter Salvage'
Steve Aylett 'Repeater'
The soundtrack to the Disco Biscuits was released in conjunction with London lit-dance club promoters Arthrob and their label Coalition, an almost perfect collection of the defining moments in a decade of dance music with classics from 808 State, Underworld, Leftfield, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Orbital, Goldie more...
The Richmond Review, 1997
Between the Lines, Melbourne, 1997
Society: Ecstasy, Hari Kunzru, London Review of Books, 1997
Telegraph Magazine, February 1998
Erasing Clouds, 2001
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Sarah Champion also edited Disco 2000, Shenanigans and Fortune Hotel collections.
