Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall's blog

Carrie’s books | Carrie’s band

The cover of Carrie's book, Small Town Joy, and two review extracts. "An absolute treat of a read... a mixtape lovingly assembled by a friend's cool, knowledgeable older sister." - Gutter Magazine "Her exploration of queer music's escapist, visionary powers brings joy, not in small neasures." - The Wire

  • Does your iPhone 3G sound different?

    Here’s one for the 3G owners: does your iPhone sound different to your old iPhone when you’re playing music? I’m using the same headphones, same EQ settings and same music, but the 3G sounds less bassy than the first-gen iPhone: it’s hard to explain, but the best way I can describe it is that the… [more]

  • Radiohead go open source

    Well, sort of. The video for House of Cards uses a whizzy data visualisation technique, whatever that means, and techy types can download the data from Google Code and fiddle with it. Here’s the video. Or you could just zoom around a 3D model of Thom Yorke’s head. [Via Metafilter] [more]

Read me in books

My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.

My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.

I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.

A photo of the book Carrie Kills A Man.