A Revised Tale From The Tin Igloo
Published: September 6, 2021
Blue Ring Publishing has just dropped the 2021 revised edition of A Tale From The Tin Igloo, digital version, on Amazon for Kindle, tablet and phone.
Hopefully most of the dreadful typos have been overwritten. Some new text has been added — not that it is ‘new’, I had left it out of the first version to try to streamline the yarn — and some additional notes now clutter the arse-end of the book.
To recap: A Tale From The Tin Igloo is a fictional yet quasi-historical anecdote centred around a family of British Ten Pound Tourists who arrived in Australia in the mid-to-late 1960’s and were ensconced in the Pennington Migrant Hostel. The Bishops, from Newcastle, UK, have two sons who are full of the newly-emerging pop/RnB music of the day and find some kindred spirits to share their passion. And passion, in a different form, and its fatal — yes, fatal, lethal, deadly — consequences brings trouble to the Bishop boys and their new group of mates.
Set against the evolving pop music scene of the day and spanning the years between ’65 and ’70, the story, though fictional, weaves its way round factual ‘Australian music history’ signposts of the time.
Although the story is only in written form, a collection of historically compatible songs have been written and recorded to accompany the yarn. A selection of these tunes will be performed live by The Nuts at their upcoming Umbrella Festival show on Thursday September 16.
Tags: Adelaide, Australian music, migrant hostel, mystery, ten pound tourist, Tin Igloo