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News of DJ performances and ticket links
STRAWBERRY AND THE BIG APPLE: Grace Jones in Stockport, 1980 Dave Haslam | confingo
STRAWBERRY AND THE BIG APPLE: Grace Jones in Stockport, 1980 Dave Haslam | confingo
Dave Haslam's Substack | Substack
Dave Haslam's Substack | Substack
Dave Haslam's personal Substack, with new and exclusive writing, interview transcripts, and journalism archives 1983-2024. Click to read Dave Haslam's Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Adventure Everywhere - Picasso's Paris Nightlife
Adventure Everywhere - Picasso's Paris Nightlife
'Adventure Everywhere' is the seventh book in Dave Haslam's acclaimed Art Decades series. Picasso in Paris in the 1900s was advancing the frontiers of art in a city vibrant with hedonism and creativity. Life after dark fascinated and inspired him. On the occasion of his first exhibition in Paris, a critic wrote that Picasso is an artist ‘who never believes the day is over, in a city that offers a different spectacle every minute’. In Adventure Everywhere, Dave Haslam portrays the world of drink, sex, music, drugs, art, and chaos that constituted Picasso’s nightlife. Picasso’s relationships – and debts – to poets and other artists are described; his misogyny is addressed; and no bar, cabaret club or dance hall is left unvisited in this vivid and intriguing account of how significant nightlife was in Picasso’s Paris, and how central in his art.
Sylvia Plath & Ian Curtis
Sylvia Plath & Ian Curtis
I first visited Sylvia Plath’s grave in 1988 with a film crew. Tony Wilson had asked me to pick and present features on his Granada TV show The Other Side of Midnight. Wilson introduced me as the show’s “critic at large”, and there I was, in a cheap anorak like something one of the Pastels […]
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