Out and about with Totally Wired
My new book Totally Wired: The Rise & Fall of the Music Press is out in the UK, Europe, Australia and other countries, so I have been active on the promotional front.
Category: 2020s
‘Illuminating treatise… essential reading’ Electronic Sound on Totally Wired
The first review of my next book Totally Wired: The Rise & Fall of the Music Press is in the current issue of British monthly Electronic Sound, which receives a mention in the post-2000 epilogue: Challenging my ‘rise & fall’ thesis, Electronic Sound‘s review is nevertheless complimentary, describing the book as an ‘illuminating treatise’ and […]
John Cooper Clarke, Generation X, Johnny Moped, Punch The Clock and Vinyl Factory: 5 x Barney Bubbles badges
Get your Barney Bubbles Button badge set from the Barney Bubbles online shop.
Oh Bondage! Up Yours! My piece in the latest issue of MacGuffin
I’ve returned to the excellent MacGuffin magazine with a piece in their latest issue, which adopts the theme ‘The Chain’.
Invitation to the 1970 opening of Universal Witness in Fulham Road: Paul Reeves’ taste-making brilliance, George Hardie’s graphic excellence + David Bowie’s bippity-boppity hat…
Here’s another treasure from the trove of Design magazines given to me by the designer Paul Walters; the invitation for the opening of Paul Reeves’ west London boutique Universal Witness in November 1970.
Post-Pistol – a timely look at Malcolm McLaren’s London at Fora Soho tonight
What with Pistol and all, it seems timely to discuss Malcolm McLaren’s place in the scheme of things so tonight journalist Helen Barrett and I will be in conversation at a London Society event about the late cultural iconoclast’s relationship with the city of his birth. Here is a selection of visuals from this evening’s […]
‘He used the city as a playground for artistic expression’: Mapping Malcolm McLaren’s London life on June 9
Rare and exclusive images will be on display during the forthcoming event about the late Malcolm McLaren’s London life at Fora Soho on June 9.
Malcolm McLaren’s London Life with Helen Barrett at the London Society on June 9
In the evening June 9 I’ll be in Soho for a London Society event about the London life of the late cultural provocateur Malcolm McLaren. At workplace venue Fora in Broadwick Street writer Helen Barrett and I will be discussing the ways in which the man born in Stoke Newington and buried in Highgate Cemetery […]
Barney Bubbles website launched
The all-new Barney Bubbles website has been launched as part of the celebration to mark what would have been the graphic genius’s 80th birthday this year.
Talking Barney Bubbles in the Los Angeles Review of Books
I’m featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books in conversation with the journalist and musician Elizabeth Nelson about the life and times of the late graphic designer Barney Bubbles. Read the LARB piece here. Nelson has also recorded a tribute to the late graphic artist with her band The Paranoid Style. The track was […]