Resident Punk UK Launch Party
- Dimanche 15 novembre
- 18:30-22:00
- The Lexington 96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB, Royaume-Uni
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Resident Punk UK launch party.
Legs McNeil in conversation with Stewart Lee, followed by two bands (plus guests) performing music from the artists featured within the book (mostly CBGB circa 1976-1982).
About the book.
Time-travel to the punk scene of 1970s New York, as seen through the eyes of its chief reporter known as “the original punk”, who gave the movement its name.
Part memoir and part cultural history, Resident Punk offers a no-holds-barred expose chronicling the music scene defined by bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Television and Talking Heads.
In 1975, at just 19 years old, Legs McNeil, alongside John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn, co-founded PUNK magazine. In doing so, they chronicled the start of a movement. McNeil’s role in the whole thing? To be their resident punk, embodying the zeitgeist the magazine was looking to capture, often by getting fucked up with musicians, artists, writers and hangers-on.
Now, in time for the 50th anniversary of PUNK magazine, Legs tells the stories behind the stories. The co-author of Please Kill Me, Legs invites you along as he tussles with musicians, artists, writers, Hollywood film stars and figures of 1970s New York. Featuring stories about Joey Ramone, William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Alan Vega, Martin Rev, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Poly Styrene, this book is a look at the punk scene as only a true insider can tell it.
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The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB, Royaume-Uni