Ex-Director of the Doctoral College, University of Wolverhampton. Sentiments my own; RTs mostly endorsements. Website below for my research & publications.
UK
Joined February 2009
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recent books from me:
+ "Hotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society"
berghahnbooks.com/title/Hall…
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016yx…
+ "Politics of the Many"
bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-o…
+ "Adult Themes"
bloomsbury.com/uk/adult-them…
+ "Diva"
bloomsbury.com/uk/diva-97815…
To LSD and the Search for God: NorCal psych underground refries shoegaze,
Gorilla '26 doubling up as the Fillmore '67...
To @bandonthewall for a night of Falkirk flamboyance, with @ArabStrapBand. Strong opening too...
New article from me:
"Factory as Laboratory: 'Vinyl' – the Tavel/Warhol 'Clockwork Orange'" @NRFTSJournal
Taking in Anthony Burgess, Andy Warhol, Ronnie Tavel, Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, BDSM & bathhouse culture, & the Korova Milkbar
Free access: tandfonline.com/eprint/8KTBQ…
To Homobloc at Mayfield Depot, with @kimpetras -- when subculture becomes an institition. Thread of photos and videos...
The Telescopes "Static Charge" UK/EU tour begins @talleyrandmcr:
* immersive
* psychedelic
* drone
* postrock
* shoegaze ... (since 1987)
@kickthewall
The Evangelical Revival with @therealkurtvile at the Manchester Ritz last night.
Kyle Spencer though: v chilled and rock steady on the skins, but don't be fooled -- saw him filling in for @dinosaurjr's Murph @Primavera_Sound 2013 and it was, appropriately, a cacophonous storm
Pls retweet: "Search for lads in 1979 Handsworth photo project"
"A photographer has appealed for help in finding two people who took part in a pop-up studio shoot nearly 50 years ago."
Details: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwl…
Ai WeiWei / "Button Up!" @factoryintl
* Glass Angel of Death hovers over refugee dingy (La Commedia Umana, 2017 & Law of the Journey, 2017/25)
* Ai Weiwel and Zuoxiao Zuzhou in an elevator as the police take them into custody, Chengdu, China, 2009
*Portrait of the Whitehouse
"Vintage print" @home_mcr, of suitably distressed 35mm celluloid for "Looking for Mr Goodbar": "has to be one of the most audacious & fascinating movies of the seventies" @BruceLaBruce talkhouse.com/12795 & introduced by Ellen Smith
Absolutely no question of a @BBFC "X" here!
Just posting this to commemorate Aaliyah's passing, a quarter of a century ago, today. My favourite cover (off-the-shoulder poise, Sphinx-level sass, '90s baggy + Hollywood '30s lighting)... and such a sultry, nostalgic track...
