разорви это и начни снова / энергетическая вспышка / roztrhněte to a začněte znovu

                                  

This month will see the publication in Russia of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 by Shoom Press.  Translation by Ilya Miller. 

A virtual discussion of the book -   the author in dialogue with the critic Alexander Gorbachev -   organised by the British Council is happening on March 11 at 19-30 Moscow time. Details about how to attend here.

In other news, later this year  - late summer I believe - Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture is also coming out in a Russian translation, through the auspices of the publishing program of  the museum V-A-C (which stands for ‘Victoria – the Art of being Contemporary’). 

Finally, completing the penetration of the post-Communist East, there will be a Czech language version of Rip It Up coming out in a few months time via the publisher Volvox Globator. 

EUROPE TOUR APRIL 28 - MAY 12 : AUSTRIA, GERMANY, POLAND, U.K., SPAIN

SATURDAY APRIL 28  - KREMS an der DONAU, AUSTRIA

Donaufestival: endlose Gegenwart (endless now)
2pm - "Absent Futures, Present Past: Temporalities in Today’s Music" - panel discussion with Jens Balzer and Christian Höller 
Location: Kino im Kesselhaus 
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THURSDAY MAY 3 – , WEIL am RHEIN, GERMANY / BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Vitra Design Museum

6.30 pm - talk about techno, rave, and electronic dance music
Location: Depot Deli, next to the Schaudepot 
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SATURDAY MAY 5  / SUNDAY MAY 6 - OBERHAUSEN, GERMANY

Internationale Kurzfilmtage 

Saturday 5th – 10 pm - jury member for announcement of prize-winning music videos at Muvi Screening & Award Ceremony 

Location;  Lichtburg Cinema

Sunday 6th - 10 AM - "After YouTube: Music Video after the Internet" - panel discussion with Marisa Olsen and Christian Höller

Location: Festival Space, Langemarkstr. 22, 46045 Oberhausen

Admission: Free

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MONDAY MAY 7^TH – WARSZAWA, POLAND

publication of Retromania: ak popkultura żywi się własną przeszłością by Kosmos Kosmos

Launch event -  "a meeting with readers": discussion led by Jarek Szubrycht, with Filip Łobodziński (translator of Retromania), followed by Q+A

Time: 7pm

Location: Plac Zbawiciela (podium in front of Plan B Café) 

WEDNESDAY MAY 9 - WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Rock 'n' Roll Book Club "My Life in Pop": video-illustrated talk on TV epiphanies + Q+ A. 

Time: 6pm to 8 pm
Location: Walthamstow Library
Tickets:  Eventbrite. 




Spain mini-tour for Como Un Golpe de Rayo (published by Caja Negra)

THURSDAY MAY 10 – MADRID, SPAIN 

Primera Persona Festival 

21.00 horas - talk about glam rock and its legacy with videos + Q+A
Location: La Casa Encendida 
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FRIDAY MAY 11 –  Málaga, Spain  

451: La Noche De Los Libros Festival 

21:00 horas | talk about glam rock and its legacy with videos + Q+A

Sala 001

La Térmica

Avda. de los Guindos, 48

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SATURDAY MAY 12 – BARCELONA, SPAIN  

Primera Persona Festival

21:00 horas | talk about glam rock and its legacy with videos + Q+A
Location: El Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona 
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I had a very enjoyable conversation with Angus Finlayson about the new edition of Energy Flash, and the dialogue is now up at Electronic Beats.

book news

The new expanded / updated edition of Energy Flash is out now.

Check here for further information about a London E-Flash event (Monday June 24, Rough Trade East) and a Bristol E-Flash event (Thursday June 27th, Rise).

I'll also be in Glasgow Saturday June 22 to give the keynote speech at Tomorrow Never Knows: 'The Future' Symposium. More information to follow.

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In other book news:

Energy Flash is coming out in a Spanish translation via the Barcelona based publishing house Contra.

Rip It Up and Start Again is coming out in a Spanish translation via the Buenos Aires based publishing house Caja Negra Editora.

Rip It Up and Start Again is coming out in a Polish translation via the publishing wing of Krytyka.

Retromania is coming out in a Russian translation via White Label Publishing.

Retromania is coming out in a Korean translation via the Seoul publisher Workroom.

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FRENCH TRIP FOR BRING THE NOISE / UK APPEARANCE AT FABER SOCIAL

In the last week of March I’ll be in Paris for the publication of Bring the Noise by Au Diable Vauvert, and will be appearing at the Paris Book Fair and doing events at two bookstores.

Then the week after that I'll be appearing at the Faber Social in London (April 2), participating in a night of talk and entertainment themed around Vinyl. I’ll be reading from the new updated/expanded edition of Energy Flash that Faber is publishing in June. 

PARIS / BRING THE NOISE: 25 ANS DE ROCK ET DE HIP HOP VERSION AUGMENTEE

Saturday  March 23

16h-18h  - Paris Book Fair (Salon du Livre) - Paris Expo. Porte de Versailles

Au Diable Vauvert stand (S65)

Booksigning

Sunday March 24

14h-16h - Paris book fair - Au Diable Vauvert stand

(S65)

Booksigning

Wednesday March 27

19h-21h - Le Thé des écrivains  store

16 rue des minimes 75003 Paris

Live discussion between me, the bookseller and a journalist (details TK)

+ book signing

Thursday  March 28

13h-14h

PublicisDrugstore - Les Champs-Elysées - 75008 Paris

Booksigning

                                                    

LONDON  /  ENERGY FLASH 2013

Tuesday April 2nd, 7 pm: Faber Social and Rough Trade Shops Present Vinyl
The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London W1
Tickets £6 in advance / £8 on the door

"Pete Paphides (BBC 6 Music's Vinyl Revival) will spin some records and host some chat; Travis Elborough will take us on a trip through 60 years of recording history reading from his book The Long-Player Goodbye; a panel of industry experts including Jude Rogers and Spencer Hickman will wax lyrical about the life and love of vinyl; Simon Reynolds will be zipping in from LA to read from his new update of Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture; The Pogues founding member and accordion player James Fearnley will read from his story of the band’s life Here Comes Everybody and Workin' Man Noise Unit will play a live set of tinnitus-inducing tantrum rock. "    More information

                                

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.