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Blunt Wound Trauma by Mick McGuinness out now!

A collection of 10 short stories which range from the fast paced and brutal Harvest which careers its way across Europe; to the more thoughtful and reflective The Jad which deals with growing up on Tyneside. Feral deals with the clash between modern urban youth and someone who tried to live their dream and extend their youth into adulthood. Scorpio is a tale of revenge which won Red Bubble Short Stories - Spherical Scriptings writing groups Zodiac 13 competition. Mariella is a short sequel to Harvest which hints at a new life for Mariella outside of her life of drudgery. Kerfuffle is a short fast paced story of obsession and love. Bastille Day is a humorous tale which will strike a chord with anyone who is doomed to the penal servitude of the school run! Colin is a short tale which will leave you guessing to the very last moment; while Night Shift is look at the seedy underbelly of life in a low rent Belgian night club. The book wraps up with the short and brutal Deadline.

Micky has spent the last twenty six years concentrating on not making any money from playing in a succession of bands such as The Blood Robots, Generic, Anything But That, One By One, Ebola, and currently Jinn; and thought it was time to add pen to plectrum as weapon of torture.

Review "Drawing on his years in the gritty DIY punk scene, and dredging up universal memories of bleak, grey childhoods, Micky McGuinness has penned a deliciously grim and nihilistic collection of hard-nosed crime fiction, peopled with the sort of realistically nasty characters we might all have grown up with living next door to us... shining a light into the darkest recesses of the subconcious where REVENGE is king, this is an impressively memorable body of believable work that will stay with you long after the last bloody act of retribution has splattered the final page..." --Ian Glasper author of Burning Britain and The Day The Country Died.

Review "Authentic fiction that evokes a period, only twenty years ago, that now feels lost. Whether it's bands touring Europe for the price of a beer or kids feuding during a warm summer, McGuinness captures the era in a way that feels honest..." Lee Smith: Black Flame Books

Review "Gritty, hard-hitting, no-nonsense missives fuelled by endless hours on the dirtiest roads and in the dirtiest bars, bringing to mind the fine tradition of Kerouac, Bukowski and Thompson. A juggernaut that can't be stopped once it gets rolling." Kunal Nandi : SuperFi

Available from Amazon and all good bookshops: see: http://www.gibboncore.com

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Some of you might have noticed that I have disappeared from the punk rock forum world and MySpace; that is partly because I have been busy writing fiction and setting up a micro publishing business; no I’m not going to be publishing really small books! “Micro” because I’m going to be publishing a relatively small amount of books per year… small that is compared with the big boys.
The first title is *Blunt Wound Trauma* which is an anthology of my own short stories. I’m hoping to have this available by the end of January 2009; so hang onto those Amazon Vouchers that you get for Xmas! I’ll do another update when the publication date is firmed up; in the mean time you can check out my web site for further info. Gibboncore
For those of you interested in Jinn; we are still going… we even played a gig on Saturday, 2009 will bring new recordings and maybe even another Euro Tour. Cheers
Micky

This is the My Space version of the Gibboncore website where you can find out details about Jinn, Ebola, One By One, Anything But That, Generic and The Blood Robots.
These are all bands that I have had the pleasure of playing guitar, and writing songs for. I even go the chance to sing in One By One!

The chances are if you like one of these bands it may be worth checking out the others, as they all kind of follow a logical progression… mainly getting faster and faster, and louder and nastier!

However I would say that Jinn are a bit of a curved ball, in that we are faster than Ebola ever were, but at other times quite reminiscent of One By One.