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About Me

Ray Russell has not performed under the name "Euston Piret" since the 1980s when he sang in The Trug Concept and the rarely-seen Kevin and the Anoraks (playing in both guises in the early days of Brighton's Zap Club). A founder member of the late, lamented The Bollweevils , he has long since given up trying to sing. These pseudo-songs have been put together when he is meant to be working, running the Tartarus Press .

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Member Since: 5/23/2007
Band Website: www.tartaruspress.com/eustonpiret.htm
Influences: Whoever I listened to last.... Heroes, in roughly chronological order, Dick Dale, Shangri-Las, The Shadows, Kate Bush, The Ramones, Television, Blondie, The Instant Automatons, The Fall, Toyah, Nick Drake, early Pixies, Nick Cave, The Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, The Go-Betweens, REM, Natalie Merchant, Grandaddy, Harold Budd, Labradford, Robin Guthrie, Alessandro Stefana and very recently the wonderful Neutral Milk Hotel.Authors who get re-read on a regular basis: Arthur Machen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Robert Aickman, Phyllis Paul, M.P. Shiel, Walter de la Mare.Poets: Ernest Dowson, Philip Larkin, John Sewell, Glen Cavaliero.
Sounds Like: I don't quite know what I am doing...
Record Label: none

My Blog

New book, "Bloody Baudelaire"

My novella, Bloody Baudelaire, is to be published on 1st June by the Ex Occidente Press. A sewn hardcover book of 75pps and limited to 400 copies, the book is $30 inc. p&p to Europe and USA, $35 to th...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 00:58:00 GMT

Euston Piret and Lidwine on BBC Radio 6

I've long been a fan of Stuart Maconie's "The Freak Zone" on BBC Radio 6. (When the station started up it was wonderful because all of the djs were passionate about sharing their love of music. Nowada...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 00:53:00 GMT

First reviews for "Putting the Pieces in Place"

"Ray Russell's stories in Putting the Pieces in Place are captivating for their depth of mystery and haunting melancholy. These qualities place Russell in a tradition of authors that includes Sheridan...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:49:00 GMT

Publication date

Putting the Pieces in Place now has a publication date of 15th January 2009.It can be ordered direct from the publisher in Bucharest by emailing [email protected] the UK it can be ordered from ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:18:00 GMT

New book! "Putting the Pieces in Place"

It has been a good year so far for my short fiction, with stories published in The Black Veil and The Werewolf Pack and another just published in Postscripts 16. But to make the year complet...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:03:00 GMT