The author wrapped up a "hectic and fruitful" 3-city tour recently, which saw him read from his 2012 Booker-nominated and DSC Prize winning debut novel "Narcopolis". Accompanied by musician friends, the readings were in nonconformist 1960s Beat poetry style, a different arrangement in each city.
"I am planning to make the tour into a full fledged project under the title 'Still Dirty'. I plan on doing more concerts under that name and across a lot more cities and also to record a solo album," Thayil told PTI in an interview.
'Still Dirty', says Thayil, is so named because each time he does a performance it is "still dirty", the musicians and the gig itself "a work in progress" adapting and improvising every single time.
"All of them are friends and we have jammed together before. Each of the shows was very different from the other. While with Nikhil and Tony we did a spontaneous traditional beat poetry style, with Suman Sridhar it wasn't ST style at all. Similarily, with Thambe it was a different improvisation. There was no rehearsal we did soundchecks and plunged in," says Thayil.
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