Just a month now until my new book is out!
Below you will find info about the UK tour in mid-June; news about the translated editions in Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Turkish; links to upcoming podcast appearances, interviews, and pieces written by me related to the book; info about the limited-edition zine Fifty Lost Treasures available only through pre-orders at select retailers; and details of a Rough Trade special offer for pre-orders.
UK edition published June 18 by White Rabbit Books - pre-order. US edition Jan 2027.
STILL IN A DREAM UK TOUR JUNE 15-20
Dates, times, host locations, links for tickets, plus info about who will be joining me onstage to talk about the book and the era
Monday 15 - London - Rough Trade East
Location: Old Truman Brewery 91, Brick Ln, London E1 6QL
Time: 8pm
Conversation with Miki Berenyi (Lush / author Fingers Crossed)
Followed by audience Q+A and book signing.
Get tickets here
Tuesday 16 - Bath - Roseberry Road Studios
Location: 25 - 28 Roseberry Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2 3DX
Time: evening, details TBC
Conversation with Jonathan Wright (journalist and Groovy Times co-founder)
Followed by audience Q+A, book signing and a DJ set from TBC.
Wednesday 17 - Bristol - Strange Brew
Location: Strange Brew, 10-12 Fairfax St, Bristol BS1 3DB
Time: evening, details TBC
Conversation with Darran McLaughlin (Strange Brew)
Followed by audience Q+A and book signing (books courtesy Bookhaus).
Get tickets here
Thursday 18 - London - IMCP The Long Play Sessions,
Location: The Venue, ICMP (Queens Park Campus), NW6 6PA
Time: 7pm
Conversation with Rudy Tambala (A.R. Kane)
Followed by audience Q+A and book signing
Friday 19 - Leeds - Waterstones
Location: 93-97 Albion St, Leeds LS1 5AP
Time: evening, details TBC
In conversation with David Hesmondhalgh (Leeds University / author Why Music Matters)
Followed by audience Q+A and book signing.
Saturday 20 - Brighton - Resident
Location: 27 - 28 Kensington Gardens, North Laine, Brighton, BN1 4AL
Time: evening, TBC
Conversation with Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins / Bella Union)
Followed by audience Q+A and book signing
Word In Your Ear podcast - a really fun conversation with Mark Ellen and David Hepworth (airs this week)
My essay for Vice's "Self-Destruction" issue - connecting Velvet Underground's "Heroin" to the oblivion-thru-obliteration aesthetic of narcotic neo-psych bands like Spacemen 3 and other late '80s bliss-rockers. (published imminently)
To Here Knows When podcast - excellent chat with Paul McDermott (airs imminently)
Quietus news story by Christian Eede on Still In A Dream, with comments from myself and from the cover designer Henri Holz
FIFTY LOST TREASURES bonus zine
For the U.K. only, the Record Store Special Edition comes with a limited-edition fanzine, Fifty Lost Treasures dedicated to "lost treasure from the lost generation", artists not covered or only glancingly mentioned in the book.
You can get it here at Gnostic Sonics or here at Resident or here at Stranger Than Paradise or here at Norman Records
TRANSLATIONS
Spanish language version is due from Caja Negra Editora in Argentina. Date TBA.
Italian version from Minimum Fax. Date TBA.
German version from Ventil Verlag. Date TBA.
French version from Audimat. Date TBA.
Turkish version from Ayrinti. Date TBA
Still in a Dream is more than just a celebration of some enduringly wonderful music - it's a great book full stop, Reynolds' best yet. Bringing together the sugar hiccup enthusiasms of his music press youth with the harsh wisdom of his extremely online old age, it covers everything from the sensual sublimity of the Cocteau Twins to Big Black and the genesis of edgelordism, from the little undergrounds of C86 and shoegaze to the pyrrhic overground victories of Grunge and Britpop. It's warm, funny, sometimes startlingly honest, and a very timely reminder that 'withdrawal in disgust is not the same thing as apathy'
- Owen Hatherley, author of Militant Modernism and The Alienation Effect
"Still in a Dream is as important a work of art as any of the records that inspired it. Simon Reynolds's erudition and judgement is at the service of the music he so passionately loves, his words meeting the songs on an equal footing thanks to an innate lack of ego which allows his insights to float amidst the notes in an ether of sonic luminosity
- Tariq Goddard, founder of Repeater Books and author High John the Conqueror
'Much like the melodies of the music itself, this book feels like a story which has been waiting to burst out and shine for an eternity. Every band detail is fascinating but the real joy lies in Reynolds being entirely enraptured by a scene, the tales of someone blissfully caught in the heart of a storm'
- Daniel Avery, deejay and producer
‘The alternative guitar rock of the late 80s was imaginative, expansive, experimental, and ultimately - and perhaps unexpectedly - proved to have a lasting impact on the way pop sounds in the 21st Century. Simon Reynolds was there, filing dispatches from rock's cutting edge: part-memoir of a lost world of music journalism, part critical analysis, Still In A Dream brings an important and exhilarating era vividly to life’
- Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
ROUGH TRADE SPECIAL OFFER
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