Ballardian

From Flagpole Magazine, an ‘alt.weekly’ based in Athens, Georgia (USA)

“J.G. Ballard: Conversations (San Francisco, 2005) is the latest dispatch from the hell-raising subculture documentarians at RE/Search Publications. Between its covers, J.G. Ballard engages in exactly what the title promises with RE/Search’s taste-making head honcho V. Vale and a few other well-informed fans.”

I’m very interested in JGB’s influence on Hawkwind and Bob Calvert (another area we’ll soon be covering on Ballardian), so I found it interesting that the reviewer, Damien Weaver, mentions the following:

“Musically, Ballard’s heyday of influence was 25 years ago, when gloom cookie Ian Curtis borrowed a Ballard title (Atrocity Exhibition) to give an unrelated Joy Division song intellectual burnish, and Robert Calvert of the immortal Hawkwind read the Ballard thriller High-Rise, distilled it to its thematic essence, and righteously rocked it out”.