Saturday April 29 NYC - GLAM!! A Celebration of Glitter Rock and Art Pop

Sukhdev Sandhu and I have organised a day-long celebration of glam, glitter and 70s art pop in downtown New York on Saturday April 29th - with talks involving Mark Dery, Dan Fox, Johan Kugelberg, Vivien Goldman, Sukhdev Sandhu and myself, and the screening of some rarely-seen films from or about the early Seventies.

The event is free and open to the public.


THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE

presents

GLAM!! - A CELEBRATION OF GLITTER ROCK AND ART POP

Date: Saturday, April 29, 2017
Time: 2:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), New York. Room: 674
Cost: Free

SCHEDULE

2:00 –  introduction from Simon Reynolds

2:15 - So Many Ways To Hurt You (Jeremy Deller's film about glam wrestler Adrian Street, 2010)

3:10 - Punk Before Punk: Stomp Rock and Junkshop Glam - conversation between Johan Kugelberg & Simon Reynolds.

4 - Roxette (John McManus's film about Roxy Music fans, 1977) + other short films

4:55 - “I Felt Like An Actor”: Glam and the Authentically Inauthentic - conversation between Dan Fox and Mark Dery.

5:45 - All That Glitters (Julian Aston's film about The Sweet, 1974) +  Gary Glitter: Did You Miss Me…? (directed by Nigel Finch, 1981)

6:45 - ‘Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacies from the 70s to the 21st century’ – conversation between Simon Reynolds, Vivien Goldman & Sukhdev Sandhu

7:45 - Slade In Flame (directed by Richard Loncraine, 1975).

                                       

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