Man Shines Shoes

£13.00

Man Shines Shoes

By Bill Drummond

99 pages, near A5 casebound hardback.

Two colours

Penkiln Burn book 16

Previously planted in 2013

Now in season for two weeks

Part one is written in the English language, part two is a translation by Verena Nala into the Italian language

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT:

Polishing shoes, The Venice Biennale, Grand Central Station, brogues, Bill Drummond, not giving a fuck, caring too much, Chinese youth hostels in Italy, Poly Styrene, bondage, the smell of Chinese cooking, graffiti, German Sausage Dogs, all coppers being bastards and becoming a shoe-shine boy for the first time at the age of 58.

 

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In the Drummond household we all had our chores to be done before breakfast. My chore of choice, above making the beds, filling the log basket or coal scuttle, was always polishing the shoes, and they were polished every day. To me that was not a chore. I always loved polishing shoes, the whole ritual, the smell of the polish, and of course the final satisfying shine…

At the age of 58, I was to become a shoe-shine boy…

You see this is what is missing from the career of Lady Gaga. She has never gone through her shoe-shining girl period. And in turn this is exactly where I

am going right by entering it as now. She will be so jealous…

After polishing the sixth pair of shoes there was a lull in business. I counted my takings – nine Euros. This felt like the first honest money I had earned since I was in my early 20s doing a proper job…