! UPCOMING EVENTS!
Saturday October 3 - NOVOTVAR FESTIVAL, Bratislava, Slovakia
Conversation with Miloš Hroch
Time: 5pm
Location: V-klub
Free and open to the public
Tuesday October 20 - ROCK AND ROLL BOOK CLUB, Walthamstow, London
Conversation with Daniel Avery + Kitty Empire
Time: 6.30pm
Location: Walthamstow Trade Hall
Wednesday October 21 - TROPICALL RECORDS, Bruxelles, Belgium
Conversation with Simon Taylor
Time: evening
Location: Rue Haute 235, 1000
Friday October 23 - BORDERKITCHEN, Den Haag, Nederlands
Conversation with Lee Brackstone
Time: 8pm
Location: BorderKitchen, Kerkstraat 13
Tickets
A MEDLEY OF REVIEWS + READER REACTIONS
"One of the finest music books of the year" - Jonathan Wright, Classic Pop
"Both eulogy and manifesto, Still in a Dream is an enthralling, nostalgic meditation on formative, lost-in-music moments and an eloquent, enduring argument for an art of bliss and bewilderment" - - Declan Long, ArtReview
"An insightful history, mixed with fond memoires of writing for Melody Maker, one of the weekly "inkies" in the UK's exuberantly opinionated music press" ― Financial Times, Best Books of the Summer
"What a fantastic book this is! It is, I think, the finest work by the best living music writer." - Martin Raybould, Goodreads
"An absolutely sublime lovesong to the era, could read over and over" - Jazmine, Goodreads
"A pleasure to read!" - Iggy Pop Barker, amazon.co.uk
"Despite being 464 pages, it breezed by... It might be the most brisk, easy read of any of his books, and I enjoyed it immensely" - Fast and Bulbous blog
"Surprised even myself by how much I enjoyed and devoured this book. Just loved it... Over 400 pages and I wished it was longer" - Robert, Goodreads
"I read this in two days flat: that's how much I enjoyed it.... It is more personal than his other books, but without being self-indulgent." - William, Goodreads
"A perfect accompaniment to Rip It Up and Start Again. Thank you Simon for bringing back so many memories" -- Bookends (Amazon.co.uk reviewer)
"I've never dropped everything so fast to read a book immediately after receiving my pre-order.... It met my sky-high expectations" - Richard Balmer (Goodreads)
"These years clearly have much fondness attached to them from him which makes this a joy to read." - Aaron Hodgetts (Goodreads)
"Reynolds is a great writer. Many visceral, haptic descriptions of music that made me immediately put the book down and look up whatever song he was waxing lyrical about.... A lot of this reads like an impassioned plea for the value of criticism " - Luke McCarthy (Goodreads)
"A very fun and approachable writer " - Ben Yaxley, Goodreads
"I have never gone to the bookstore and bought a book as fast in my life" - Jo, Goodreads
"Still in a Dream is at times dizzying non-fiction about the most wonderful and dreamy music that was created in the alternative rock era 30–40 years ago.... You also have to dig out old LPs, CDs, seven-inches and maxi singles, not least Youtube videos, to get this music straight into your veins again. Thus, a very inspiring book." - Audun Vinger, DNHelg
"Highly enjoyable blend of memoir, history, anthology. Reynolds never really fails."- Stagger Lee, Goodreads
"A brilliant, bittersweet chronicle of what happens when six-string romanticism finally hits its sonic end of the road and has nowhere left to go but pure noise."- Ilya Miller, Goodreads
"Reynold's prose is as sharp as ever, and his connections to the milieus and awkward network of slackers is heartfelt and never crosses over into sappy territory." - Maldini Damas, Goodreads
"Although with Energy Flash, Rip it up and Start Again, and Shock and Awe he's set impossibly high standards, this might be his masterpiece" - Ingram, Amazon.co.uk
"Simon Reynolds is the kind of music writer who makes you want to rush out and listen to a hundred bands you have either never heard of or heard of / meant to check out / never got round to.... Still in a Dream is as entertaining, informative and combative as a night out with your gig going buddies." - Bookmunch
"Simon Reynolds, you have outdone yourself"- James Marples, Instagram
"A masterwork" ― Neil Mason, Moonbuilding, Book of the Week
"Still in a Dream acts beautifully as a thorough, thoughtful examination of the many featured bands and their music, as an encapsulation of the societies in which they emerged, and as a memoir of the formative years of Reynolds' adult life" -- David Pollock ― Record Collector
"His writing is passionate. . . it's a thrill ride. If you weren't there, you'll wish you had been" - Uncut
"It’s an extraordinarily detailed work, nostalgia for a pre-Internet age. It will be of interest to anybody interested in the music of the period" - No More Workhorse
"A masterful cultural and social archaeology"- Richard Imrich, Fullmoon
"Pretty good" - Kieran Press-Reynolds, GQ
Spanish translation from Caja Negra Editora - 2027
Italian translation from Minimum Fax - 2027
French translation from Audimat - 2028
HIGHLIGHTS FROM EARLIER COVERAGE
Interview for Rock N Roll Book Club Music Maps podcast
FURTHER READING + LISTENING + WATCHING
Still In A Dream Footnotes
Chapter by chapter footnotes + bonus material will start going up in February. In the mean time, check out these early posts - The Lost Epigraphs and Lodestar Quotations - and look out for an Auto-Interview in the next month or so.
Instagram.com/simonreynoldswriter/ for the latest news
Baker's Dozen on Reinvention of the Guitar at The Quietus - with a YouTube playlist to accompany
Still In A Dream YouTube playlist
