Tag: Toby Amies

1970s

Rock’s Back Pages x 3: Guest on the podcast, McLaren bio extract about David Harrison’s tryout as Sex Pistols frontman and archival pieces by me on the Spice Girls (1996) and US alternative zines (1994)

I’m the featured guest on this week’s podcast from the world’s premier music journalism site rocksbackpages.com. I go way back with RBP founder and author Barney Hoskyns; he commissioned pieces from me when he was Mojo editor in the early 90s and we launched my music press book In Their Own Write, RBP and photographer […]

April 14, 2020

Conversation

Come along and celebrate Drako Oho Zarhazar: Screening and Q+A with director Toby Amies at the BFI on Sunday night

A self-confessed exhibitionist who took the world for his stage and his life for art and theatre, a blank canvas on which to create and display himself without preconceptions or inhibitions. Heavily tattooed and pierced, with his thin waxed moustache jutting forth at a rakish angle, Drako Zarhazar was for many years a familiar figure […]

March 26, 2014

Conversation

Talking about – among other things – the here and now, brain damage, memories, love, faith, cocks and nipples: Q+A with Toby Amies at the BFI on March 30

On Sunday March 30 I’ll be hosting a Q&A with film director Toby Amies (above right) after a screening at the BFI of The Man Whose Mind Exploded, Amies’ heart-rending documentary of the life of the extraordinary Drako Zarharzar (above left). We’ll be talking about Amies’ relationship with Drako, who died during the making of […]

March 13, 2014

Documentaries

The Man Whose Mind Exploded: Toby Amies’ envoi to his extraordinary friend Drako Oho Zarhazar

I can’t wait to see documentarist Toby Amies’ envoi to his extraordinary friend Drako Oho Zarhazar. Over the last year or so when we have bumped into each other socially, Amies has shown me snippets on his phone. Each tasty morsel has increased my hunger for this portrait of the late Brighton dweller Amies describes […]

June 4, 2013