Joe Murray of Radio Free Midwich reviews two chapters from the forthcoming edition of Waywords and Meansigns, by Neil Campbell and Steve Gregoropoulos.
“The first thing about having a [Neil] Campbell breathing into me lugs is… it feels super normal. Like we’re having an (admittedly one-sided) conversation or something. His reading is nicely paced, warmly English and with a fat daub of greasepaint that keeps me tuned into Joyce’s tumbling and rambunctious prose… After a while my mind starts to blur the boundaries between the steady cascade of words and the stream of endless sound until it all becomes a glorious oneness… At the end of the session my ears are going ‘shoop – shoop’ as Mr Campbell’s molars gash the endless!”
“Next up is a new name in my noggin, Steve Gregoropoulos who delivers a more theatrical performance from another chapter of oyster-fresh Joycean speech… The prose of old man Joyce is a psychic conundrum laying ever-so-lightly over the Gregoropoulos burlesque. Again I’m finding the words stretch like sticky pizza dough, forming interesting new shapes between thick-fingered hands… Another hour has passed and I realise I’ve been enjoying myself enormously, soaking up his black gravy.”
Thanks Joe! Read the full review here.