What else is there? Come listen to your new favourite writers and musicians, starting on the first Saturday afternoon of December at Gallery46 in Whitechapel, to a backdrop of Gina Birch paintings. What fresh dreams do we become?
We’re presenting the new acoustic songs by the bastard son of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, Gil De Ray. His new album, Concrete Portrait (Cold Lips) is inspired by the photography of Jason McGlade and marks a new intimate phase in his songwriting.
We’re blessed to be joined by Icelandic musician Hákon Aðalsteinsson, whose band The Third Sound adds to five years playing guitar with The Brian Jonestown Massacre. He will be performing acoustically at Gallery46, Margate and Brighton, reading from his debut book Our Broken Land (Far West Press).
And we have Jeffrey Wengrofsky to thank for pulling all of us together. Jeffrey is the last spirit of New York punk. He runs the Secrets film festival which premiered Gil and I’s debut collaboration a few years back, and his writing was published in Cold Lips magazine. Wengrofsky’s films celebrate his own underground heroes of New York, grabbing the grit and nuance of glorious obscurity. We’ll show a few of those at Dash The Henge Store, the stake in the ground of the modern South London scene. Wengrofsky will also be reading from his book, The Wolfman of Rego Park (Far West Press).
And for both London shows and in Brighton, Richard Cabut, who kick-started us publishing books as Cold Lips, with his sold out Dark Entries, will share some of his newly published works: Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances (Far West Press) and Looking for a Kiss (PC-Press, Sweat Drenched Press).
I’ll do a little something too.
If you’re around in Brighton, we’re recording a radio show for Slack City from the basement of Family Store. It’s something I’m starting to present as a quarterly, thanks to Dorothy Max Prior for the introduction.
And as promised, subscribers only, will start dropping Psychomachia as an audiobook here beforehand, so better get to it, and writing my next book from here in the beauty of the Spanish mountain I find myself atop.
Also gonna share a road trip for subscribers only soon, the best tavernas and tapas that have lightened these Audalucian lit paths between Granada and Cadiz.
If you’re on Instagram, please follow @coldlipspress and myself @kirstyallison_ and I’ll link to everyone shortly.
x Peace, love Kirsty