{"product_id":"jer-reid-days-and-diary-entries","title":"Jer Reid - Days and Diary Entries","description":"\u003cp\u003eJer Reid, Glasgow-based activist, musician of dawson, sumshapes and others offers a glimpse into his creative process and ruminations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJer Reid has spent a lot of his time being involved with music: playing and organising in lots of different bands, configurations and roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe started writing lyrics for the first band he was in, dawson, when he was a teenager. It was catharsis. Writing was a crucial way to vent his rage at prejudice, injustice and the disconnected culture of consumer capitalism he was living in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years that catharsis has been maintained while his process with writing has expanded. Writing has become a dialogue between, and a meditation on, different notions of the self and relationships of all kinds, and a point of connection to his dearest friends, places and experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDays and Diary Entries is a collection of ideas, poems, lyrics and occasional emails and one-liners written over\u003cspan\u003e thirty years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gruff Wit Records","offers":[{"title":"Paperback book","offer_id":53933918126422,"sku":"MRM-05408","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/Screenshot-2026-05-20-at-13.41.25.png?v=1779280974","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/jer-reid-days-and-diary-entries","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}