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About Mr BonxHey Mr B here,And welcome to the Official web site of Red Seal Records ltd, a bright and ambitious offering. The thoughts and opinions within these pages offer an insight to the world of Mr Bonx.com and have no connection, links or time for sites of a similar name. Therefore it is with great pleasure to introduce you to some real links to some of the coolest people in the music business today, check out the photos of me and my chums, and hopefully laugh at the monthly rants about life, women, going for it and lager. You can also check out my Ghostly story, up on line about a certain pub about 600 yards from my front door. Now that's what I call handy. All the best Mr Bonx.com. Click to see the December 2007 rant!! » Latest News October 2010Well what a blinding summer we had, sadly it's over and as I write this the rain is lashing against the window and the evenings slowly creep into more darkness…!
The skies above old East Grinstead. And so Halloween is upon us * makes Spooky noises * Good thing too, as my first book has been published. It’s a Ghostly story written about The Dorset Arms, In East Grinstead’s old High Street. I lived and worked there for quite a few years, and on hearing the tales of weird and unexplainable events from people of all ages, I set to work. Here is a review.
Musician Bonx Trigwell Book review… The Dorset Arms… Is an entertaining blend of History and the Paranormal, fact and fiction, comedy and pathos. In telling the story of the eponymous East Grinstead ale-house over a 1419 year period, it revolves around the lives of five central real-life characters, all of whom had some close connection with the Dorset Arms, and many of whom met a tragic end in or around the pub. Past and present merges as their ghosts return to haunt the place, and although the pub undergoes various rebuilding and renovations, history, it seems, can never be truly reconstructed… This is a great idea for a book, and it has many fine qualities. The stories themselves are often poignant- Mary Sumner’s tale, for example, really captures her sweet innocence, her warm if tentative friendship with Lady Sackville and the ‘pain in her heart’ when, pregnant and in deep despair, she takes her own life. The sad stories of Edward Jones and Jonathan Lancaster highlight the horrors and futility of war, while that of Anne Tree is a grim reminder of the dangers of religious fanaticism, and even the roguish Wilfred Bumble elicits our sympathy when he meets his horrible end in the tunnels. The modern tales also have their moments of drama (e.g. in * 1991* Steve and the lads have a wild old time at the 101 club, and in *1996* we witness the demise of Andrew and Beth’s once loving relationship), and they tie in neatly with the ghost stories. The ending *2666*, is quite cleaver, Trigwell envisages, with a cynical political eye, an apocalyptic England in which the Dorset Arms is now derelict and the five ghosts, now past all earthly pain, sit down to a hearty meal. Overall, this is a good read, rich in both comedy and tragedy. . By Pen Press.
There will be two further book launches in December… The Book shop in East Grinstead High Street, on Friday 10th December: between 7.00 and 9.00 pm. The Town Library on Saturday 11th December, between 12.00 and 3.00 pm. My band * Pump * will also be playing upstairs at The Dorset on the evening of the 11th… come check us out. Admission is free. I am launching my 3rd album, called * Choice Chunks * at the gig, so be nice to see you there. I will also be on BBC Radio Sussex, ( 104 FM ) on Friday 29th of October, around 11.30 am to have a little chat about the book, and a bit closer to home on radio Meridian FM ( 107 FM ) the same day from 6.00 pm, with Darren and Liz.. That will be a laugh.
Also got me ugly mug in a new song by a bunch of local nutters, Rh 19 … check out their amazing Song and video… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cEmqPMdmQc I must say, at the beginning of 2010 things were looking pretty bleak. Tax bills, living in a shitty place with a very shitty neighbour and what seemed a mountain to climb: but as the year progressed things have got better… so here’s to 2011… See ya… Bonx.
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