Redshift Over Badtown: I: Perra

"Tune your ear to your soul and let it ring."

Squirrel is a world-weary firebrand, haunted by spectres of her volatile past and driven to angst by everyday injustice. Annie is an adolescent enigma who emerges from the winter shadows with a scrapbook full of secrets and a heart ablaze with poetry. Together they embark on a tour of Glasgow's furtive fringes; following a map of wounds towards a boundless hinterland where art, culture, and history converge with memory and desire.

A genre-defying odyssey told across three volumes, Redshift Over Badtown is at once a hymn to the city of Glasgow; a whimsical series of riffs on questions of culture, politics, and identity; and a comprehensive exploration of the human predicament in all its beauty, horror, and untrammelled contradictions.

From Craig Woods, contributing editor at Paraphilia Magazine, this first volume presents a cast of engaging characters and a sumptuously peculiar perspective that will linger long in the mind.

Craig Woods is a contributing editor at Paraphilia Magazine and regular contributor for Antique Children. He has also written for International Times, and his music reviews and articles on culture and social issues have appeared in numerous online and print publications. A native of Scotland’s post-industrial Clydeside region, he lives in Glasgow and outside of time.