Will Carruthers
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Will Carruthers

Hi, I'm Will Carruthers and this is my website. I played bass in Spacemen3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dead Skeletons. I played in quite a few other bands too, but I don't really do that anymore. I write books sometimes and I am a bookbinder. Sometimes I like to do a bit of painting. Some of the stuff I make might be available in the shop on this website. If you want, (very occasional),  news from me, please sign up to the mailing list.

 
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  My latest book, Playing the bass with three left hands is published by Faber and Faber. You can buy it from all good bookstores or you can get a copy through Amazon.co.uk or through Amazon.com if you live in North America.    

 I reckon the book is mainly gibberish, containing as it does;  fireballs that smell of lavender, sweaty eggs at Watford Gap, a deaf nun, and a rusty tin of feet-go-cold spray that was never meant for human consumption. It starts off pretending to be an imaginary viking and ends up not shooting someone with a longbow. Given the circumstances we might consider that to be a happy ending.  

Famed Northampton wizard Alan Moore (V for vendetta, watchmen, et al) said this about the book. 

""In these front line despatches from the arse end of Satori, Will Carruthers nails perfectly the glorious shimmer and swoon rising out of the unspeakable lifestyles of alternative Rugby, and demonstrates how something bordering on the sacred can emerge from the hilariously, painfully profane. Written with a naked honesty, Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands expertly captures the sticky textures of a place, a time and a sound that will never be repeated. It is a chronicle of hepatitis and heroism that no one interested in the music of transitioning centuries can afford to miss. Buy this immediately."

You wouldn't want to argue with a wizard would you? 

I am also made some handmade, signed and numbered copies of the book. These have been hand stitched, lino printed and they sold the fuck out.   More information about the making of the handmade books is at this link Notification of further book availability will be sent through the mailing list , But I am not making anymore of these.  No spam.

 

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Signed Ausgang poster
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Spacemen3 / Spiritualized/ Spectrum. Studi0 and live, cassette tapes from 1989/91/ from Vhs studios in Rugby

I am putting some of my Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized aretefacts up for sale .

Brexit Diary part four - Moondust from the planet ballsack.

We might be confused and be all like: 

“Dude, Lizard, chill…have a fucking cocktail and put your feet up”

 But lizards don’t work like that. Their little claws cannot grasp cocktail glasses and, because they are largely waterproof, they have no need for umbrellas…even to keep their drinks dry. They are not like US, even though many of our thought processes originate in a tiny little lizard shaped acorn that sits on the top of our spinal column and which is the evolutionary foundation of our huge and useless brains.

Post brexit, pre-eviction, musings on death and Pasolini from Berlin.

There was a hill rising from the far side of the  pond. It was only a little hill but it was quite pretty. It was covered in trees and it was being as green as it could be. The hill hadn’t always been so nice. Once, it had been a big lump with a gun on it that had been used for shooting down aircraft. In the end some of the people trying to shoot down aircraft had only been twelve years old because all of the adults were dead or busy. Imagine that …twelve year old children trying to shoot down real aircraft with a big gun? In the end, the gun stopped firing because all of the children were dead or terrified and then the mothers collected all of the bricks from the ruined city and piled them on top of the gun so it would forget how to fire.

The Nadger's tunnel.

Barely with me dear reader, as I relate the sorrowful tale of the darkling hole in the crunching depths of the broke mid-winter.Your patience please as I relate the details of what transpired though they may beggar belief even by my own low  standards. Please forgive the occasional lapse into cannibal cant and my mangling of tenses.

Emphatically enigmatic cocktails for the discerning dipsomaniac.
Three left handmades.

Handmade copies of playing the bass..

Playing the bass with three left hands

"Buy this book immediately" Alan Moore 

Experiments in binding and new linocuts.

Japanese binding and lino cut experiments 

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Published work:

I write books and sometimes I make books...Read more

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Bio and press: 

“Frequently veering from the sublime to the ridiculous and rarely lacking a sense of humour about the whole thing, he has travelled the world performing his peculiar balancing act between artistic endeavour and hard labour. Often without a safety net."  Read more ...

 

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We have a pleasing and easy to use shop.  Have a browse here

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