it takes two to tango

Me and Kieran are going to Argentina this week for the 20th anniversary celebrations of Caja Negra, the Buenos Aires publisher who have put out nearly all of the books of mine that have been translated into Spanish. 

Actually it takes four to tango because the panel event we are doing on Saturday November 15 at 7pm at the Deseo Club is a quadraphonic colloquy with Argentinian writers Pablo Schanton and Antonia Kon. 

The event is wittily titled Presentemanía - and you guessed it, Kieran is there to represent the present: the !NOW!-minded younger generation of music critics. I, inevitably, will be there to stand for the past-it cohort. Yes, it's all a bit of a set-up but I shall graciously accept my role as the grizzled old fart in the rocking chair mumbling about Omni Trio and Associates. 

Still, who gets top billing, eh? Eh? 

I have no idea if this lot have any cred in Argentina but I have long loved this tune

FUTUROMANÍA / No Tags book

 

Out today via  Caja Negra - the Spanish-language version of Futuromania - or to give its Spanish rendering, FUTUROMANÍA 

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Future-talk also crops up in the conversation I had with Tom Lea and Chal Ravens of No Tags - the podcast / substack now turned book, with the publication of....

.... an attractively designed compendium of their chats with guests, as listed above, plus some all-new essays commissioned from various writers. The convo we had is in there too. More information about the contents here. And you can buy it  here

 

ARGENTINA + CHILE TOUR - September 26th to 30th

Next week I'll be in Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile for FILBA, the international literary festival that takes place in each city consecutively. I'll be doing various events, including talks based around Rip It Up and Start Again, which has just been published in Spanish as Postpunk by Caja Negra.  All the events are free and open to the public. Details below.

 BUENOS AIRES


Thursday 26th September, 12 pm

Workshop - the art of criticism

Museo de la Lengua –  Las Heras 2555, Recoleta



Thursday 26th September, 7 pm

Interview and trialogue with Diego Manso and Pablo Schanton, + Q&A

Fundación Osde –  Leandro N. Alem 1067 2do. subsuelo, Centro



Friday 27th, 7 pm

Post Punk conference – with Pablo Schanton

Alianza Francesa – Córdoba 946, Centro



SANTIAGO DE CHILE


Sunday 29th, 4.30 pm

Post Punk conference - with Pablo Márquez

Centro Cultural GAM: Libertador Bernando O´Higgins 227



Monday 30th, 11 am

Workshop - the art of criticism

Diego Portales University -  Manuel Rodríguez Sur 415

more informatoin and complete Festival’s activities at http://filba.org.ar/

 

Out soon, on Caja Negra Editora - the Spanish translation of Rip It Up and Start Again.

BOOK NEWS

news about Retromania's foreign editions and the American first-time release of Energy Flash

Retromania

* the French translation is published by Le Mot et le Reste Éditions on February 9th as Rétromania: comment la culture pop recycle son passé pour s'inventer un futur. I will be in Paris for the launch 2/20 to 2/23, details about the presentation on 2/20 to follow soon.

* the Spanish edition is being published in April by Caja Negra Editora as Retromanía: la adicción de la cultura pop a su propio pasado.

* the German edition is published in October by Ventil Verlag.

* in other Retromania news, the US edition has gone into its fourth printing, while the UK large-format edition, now sold out, has been replaced by the smaller, cheaper B-format with a new cover

Energy Flash

Energy Flash is issued in its expanded/updated form in America in May via Soft Skull. Because the original Generation Ecstasy was an abridged version of the UK edition, this is the first time it's been available here in its full-length form; it also has the 40 thousand extra words, covering developments in the 2000s, that were added to the UK-only 2008 anniversary edition. More information here and news about events TK.