[news update]

Rip It Up and Start Again is out.

There will be a postpunk panel discussion in London on April 27 chaired by me and featuring:

Howard Devoto
Paul Morley
Gina Birch
Richard Boon

Event starts: 8:30.
BUT
informal RIU&SA celebration starts from 7 onwards, you are invited to get me so drunk I am incapable of fulfilling my panel duties.

Free admission

After the panel there will be the screening of a 60 min video compiling footage of bands including New Order, the Fall, Cabaret Voltaire, Pop Group, Magazine, PIL, Orange Juice, Josef K... and more drinking

Location: The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Road, Highgate, London N6
Tube: Highgate (Northern Line)

More information (directions, etc)

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News on the American edition: it's due February 2006 and will be a more compact remix version.