Needle In the Groove by Jeff Noon

Author:Jeff Noon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alternative, cult adventure, music and culture, british writing, punk and new wave, dub poetry
Publisher: Jeff Noon

comedown city

—oh fuck...

—elliot...

—no / fuck / jesus!

—elliot, calm down

—what’s wrong with him?

—hold him / hold him!

—fuck off!

I’m standing, barely standing now, like the world is a tilt-play dance floor / and I can’t tell who’s pressing the buttons, who’s speaking, and I don’t really care, except that at last I’m back / in the studio, once more / down to earth, back in the land of the living / wherever, whatever

—it’s ok / it’s ok, I just need to / shit / fuck off will yer!

—elliot...

it’s donna, talking to me / trying to hold me, touch me / console me

—you had a bad time?

—yeah / bad / it was...

I shake my head a couple of times, trying to rattle something loose

—2spot’s still under

it’s jody speaking now / and pointing over to where the drummer sleeps tight in a corner / we’ve all moved around the space a little, since we went under / moved apart / jody’s trying to rouse 2spot out of his trip / I turn to donna

—jesus / that was some strange...

—I know

—you’ll never guess what I just saw / christ, that’s powerful stuff

—yeah / isn’t it / where did you go?

—go? I went to the / yeah, fuck / the electric circus, final night / oh / it was real / so real

—no / I mean, where did you go, when we went after 2spot?

—what?

—you left us there

—shit / what / you mean, you were there / you were fuckin’ well there?

and it’s all I can do to stop myself from running a million miles

—donna...

—we were there, elliot / it took us there!

her eyes / filled with wonder / desire / the pupils huge with gathered sight

—but / but how?

—I don’t know / an hallucination

—but we all went there / jody...

the dj looks up

—we did it, elliot / we fuckin’ did it!

and those words / the same words she said to me in the trip

I go over to her, looking down at 2spot / curled up tight, bedazzled, as though he’s still down there, in there, out there, wherever, whenever / floating through the rhythms

—jody, says donna

—what?

—I don’t think you should wake him...

—what?

—jody, he’s not going to like it / he was arguing in there / with his dad / I saw them

—what’s wrong with you / come on, help me here

—jody, he’s coming round / watch out

—what?

—arghhh!

it’s like a feedback scream / just 2spot’s voice, coming up, scratching fire / and his eyes, clicking straight into burn-mode / and his arms, jerking straight out to grab at jody’s neck

—ugh!

—fucker!

—2spot!

donna and I move in / and it takes everything we’ve got, to break the grip / until, finally, 2spot lets go, and jody falls back / and then I’m on 2spot, just getting my arms around him somehow, pulling him close

and jody’s crying, pleading...

—2spot, I swear / I swear, I never knew

—you fuckin’ well did know / you sampled him / you sampled the bastard, my father

—elliot, no / just the buzzcocks / the circus / and somehow.

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