Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music

Overview:

• Title: Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music
• Author: Gary Couzens
• Year: 2006
• ISBN-10: 095488129X
• Publisher: Elastic Press
• Price: £6.99
• Pages: i+300
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music
• Notes:
  • Title is stated as:
    • "Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music" on title page and front cover
    • "Extended Play" on half-title page, copyright page, spine and even numbered page headers
  • Publication year not stated in book; only copyright © 2006
  • Year, Month from Blackwells.co.uk as at 2022-09-25
  • No statement of edition or printing; no numberline
  • "Cover artwork copyright © 2006 by Dean Harkness" on copyright page
  • "Contributors", with very short biographies, on pages 295-300
  • Between each story is a short (1 or 2 page) essay by a contemporary musician. These essays do not relate to the stories. They are reminiscences on how literature has affected these songwriters' music. Consequently, these essays are not included in the ISFDb Contents section
  • The page numbers, musicians (and bands where applicable) are:
    • i) Jean-Jacques Burnel (Stranglers)
    • 25) Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol)
    • 65) Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak (Mercury Rev)
    • 97) Rebekah Delgado (Ciccone)
    • 129) Iain Ross (Bearsuit)
    • 177) Lene Lovich
    • 205) Tall Poppies
    • 233) Jof Owen (The Boy Least Likely To)
    • 275) Chris T-T
    • 291) Chris Stein (Blondie)
  • Some stories in this anthology are not speculative fiction. Consequently, they are not included in the ISFDb Contents section
  • The page numbers, story titles and authors of the non speculative fiction entries are:
    • 67) "Tremolando" by Becky Done
    • 99) "Some Obscure Lesion of the Heart" by Nels Stanley
    • 179) "First and Last and Always" by Emma Lee
    • 277) "The Barrowlands' Last Night" by Philip Raines & Harvey Welles