A Rough Guide to the Dark Side

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A Rough Guide to the Dark Side

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How I Got Involved With Gangsters

A Rough Guide to the Dark Side tells the story of my Balkan misadventures – as a journalist who went off the rails and tried to start a revolution by staging a festival on Big War Island.

It was published by Zero Books in 2012. Copies are on offer for the cover price, plus postage and packaging. Delivery is by Royal Mail, to destinations in the UK, Europe and beyond. All books come signed with a short dedication.

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A Rough Guide to the Dark Side
A Rough Guide to the Dark Side

Once upon a time, I was an ambitious young foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Disillusioned by the paper’s support for starting wars, I resigned to start a Balkan Summer of Love. Needless to say, this didn’t go as planned. A tragi-comic caper ensued, as this memoir records. It probably didn’t help to do business with gangsters, but it seemed to make sense at the time. Overall, the experience taught me how not to change the world, and why getting high was not the same as being enlightened…

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ECHO Festival, Belgrade
ECHO Festival, Belgrade

Four days of music, on four stages. The headline act was Sonic Youth, with support from Burning Spear, Morcheeba and DJs playing techno, reggae, funk and drum and bass. As I told a reporter: "No one ever sees anything coming out of this region apart from miserable stories about war, corruption and drug trafficking. I thought if we could have something really alive in the centre of the city in a beautiful location, it could be a catalyst, it could give people new influences and inspiration." It sort of worked...

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