Always Read the Label

By Domino Woodstock

A coming of age together novella involving sex and drugs and northern souls.

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Always Read the Label Chapter 16 Lets Do Lunch

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 16 Jun 2008

I'm a drinking this man's champagne while waffling on critically about some vague socialist principles. Maybe I should change my name to Derek and move to Liverpool.
Biography
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Always Read the Label Chapter 17 Swinging Both Ways

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 23 Jun 2008

...attracting loads of attention around the bar, that glowing lipstick like a red rag to a bullshitter.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 1 Aerial Sharon

By Domino Woodstock on Tue, 11 Mar 2008

“My legs won’t go down” “What?” “My legs wont go down” Laughing now, “Why?” “Cos there’s no air in them”
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Always Read the Label Chapter 10 Dee and Stanley

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 12 May 2008

After a few changes and cut backs we ended up in Camden. It was after midday now and full of people heading up the high street and towards the market. We joined the shuffle up and over the canal.
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Always read the Label Chapter 11 Would you like flies with that?

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 19 May 2008

He did have some. As Paul slips Lynn the creased wrap under the table and she heads off to powder her nose, I start to make my way to the door.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 12 After Show Party

By Domino Woodstock on Sun, 25 May 2008

It's liberating getting in a car after relying on coaches, trains, tubes and buses for so long.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 13 Threesome

By Domino Woodstock on Sun, 25 May 2008

Last night has now split into three neat groups. Simon has some explaining to do, Polly has offered Beeb a lift, mainly because she couldn't resist seeing how many people notice...
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Always Read the Label Chapter 14 Are You Lonesome Tonight?

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 02 Jun 2008

On the stairs I pass loads of people I know but can't remember where from or what their names are. They must remember me 'cos they all let on.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 15 Counting to Four

By Domino Woodstock on Tue, 10 Jun 2008

I wish I could say a mystical force entered the room and took us all into a special magical place where we found ourselves able to communicate without words like long lost brothers.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 18 They Walk Sideways

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 30 Jun 2008

There's a lot of people wearing hats. It's boiling inside with all the generated anticipation and a clear lack of chatting. I guess we've all made friends previously which is why we're here now.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 19 Chalk Farm

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 07 Jul 2008

...a narrow balcony overlooking a car park and to the side a galley like room that has unpainted areas in the shape of wall units, and space which I reckon used to house a cooker and fridge.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 2 The Morning after Pillock

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 17 Mar 2008

how do you get through the next day after a night before like that?
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Always Read the Label Chapter 20 Johnnie Cash

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 14 Jul 2008

There's a problem that no one tells you about that happens to every band on their first tour. Nothing can help you prepare for being asked for an autograph.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 21 Season's Greetings

By Domino Woodstock on Tue, 22 Jul 2008

What a head turner. She looked stunning, all bubbly and chatty with designer clothes that fitted like a glove. Then I saw her again about a few months later.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 22 Having a Bubble Bath

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 28 Jul 2008

It's like your favourite show on TV, you want to catch every single word and not look at the clock so it might go on forever. An old magazine gets transformed by origami into neat little envelopes...
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Always Read the Label Chapter 23 Supply and Demands

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 04 Aug 2008

...already caught, any thoughts of the future had to involve prison. How would anyone fill their time waiting to be locked in a cell? Maybe he needed to learn a new skill.
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Always read the Label Chapter 24 Forever Changing

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 11 Aug 2008

At first I thought it was a raid, then realised the police might not bother to knock. The thought dawned on me if it wasn't the police, it could only be someone even worse.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 25 A Fayre Trial

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 18 Aug 2008

There wasn't a lot of chance getting back to sleep after that call. It turned into one of those fights with the sheets as they grew warm and tangled.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 26 Little Bird are you Happy in Your Cage?

By Domino Woodstock on Tue, 26 Aug 2008

What did I expect? An amusement park with bright flashing lights? It was for keeping people in and didn't need to be a tourist attraction to keep the visitors coming.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 27 Ways to Get Back Home

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 01 Sep 2008

Every time I walk around Soho, I await the tap on the shoulder before I'm told I'm not cool enough to be here on my way to what will inevitably be last week's favoured hangout
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Always Read the Label Chapter 3 The Life of Reilly

By Domino Woodstock on Tue, 25 Mar 2008

There must be a switch someone at the Government hits, one that slows down time in the week and speeds it up at the weekend. After the rush of the weekend its time to drag through the week.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 4 A Life on the Ocean Waves

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 31 Mar 2008

Johnnie. You haven’t met him yet but it’s about time you did. I know it’s about time I did, it’s been a long week, and he’s the man to make it longer.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 5 Popping Out

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 07 Apr 2008

I finally fell into a sleep by drifting off to the feeling of being fanned by palms in the jungle. While lying on top of a Fiat panda. Luckily the roof wasn't too hot to lie on.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 6 Punch Drunk

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 14 Apr 2008

Always Read the Label Chapter 6 Punch Drunk
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Always Read the Label Chapter 7 13th Floor Elevator

By Domino Woodstock on Tue, 22 Apr 2008

I still can't get the hang of these maps. The platforms say north, south, east or west bound. I usually want to go to the right or the left, maybe up or down.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 8 Work/Life Balance

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 28 Apr 2008

My first time at one of the venues I've spent the past 5 years reading about in NME and Melody Maker.
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Always Read the Label Chapter 9 Waterfall

By Domino Woodstock on Mon, 05 May 2008

It wasn't just the much repeated walk home along that same old road that made me pack up my troubles in my old rucksack and move away. It had been brewing on an unwatched hob for a while.
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