Strange Attractor Press & TTLG present: All Hail Hawkwind, A Celebration of Our Greatest Space Rockers with Joe Banks, Cathi Unsworth, Malcolm Garrett and Allan Jones, hosted by Travis Elborough
Doors: 2:30
With the publication of a newly revised and expanded edition of
Sideways Through Time: An Oral History of Hawkwind in the 1970s, author Joe Banks heads an afternoon of heady amazing stories, astounding sounds and out of this world sights celebrating the interstellar excursions of Hawkwind.
Joining Joe will be the record sleeve designer and life-long Hawkwind fan Malcolm Garrett, Cathi Unsworth, the acclaimed crime novelist and author of Season of the Witch, the definitive book on Goth, and Allan Jones, the legendary music writer and founding editor of Uncut. The event will be hosted by the award-winning cultural historian Travis Elborough.
Copies of Sideways Through Time: An Oral History of Hawkwind in the 1970s, can be pre-ordered when you buy a ticket and copies will also be on sale on the day - all come with a special limited edition ‘Hawkfan’ postcard.
A music journalist who writes regularly for MOJO, PROG, Shindig!, Rock & Folk, and The Quietus, Joe Banks is the author of Hawkwind: Days of the Underground, described as 'meticulously researched, entirely engrossing' by the Wire magazine, and the newly revised and republished Sideways Through Time: An Oral History of Hawkwind in the 1970s.
Cathi Unsworth is the author of six pop-cultural crime novels, including Bad Penny Blues and Weirdo; the co-author of Defying Gravity, the life and times of punk icon Jordan and the author of Season of The Witch: The Book of Goth. A regular contributor to Fortean Times, her work explores the interface between history, mythology and entertainment.
Known for his iconic record sleeve covers for the likes of Buzzcocks, Duran Duran and Simple Minds, Malcolm Garrett has been at the forefront of graphic design for over 40 years and is an ambassador for the Manchester School of Art, and co-curator of the annual Design Manchester festival.
Allan Jones is the legendary former editor of Melody Maker and Uncut. His latest book is Too Late To Stop Now, which follows Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down, contains stories from his work as a staff writer at Melody Maker from 1974 to 1984 and where he had many memorable and occasionally bruising (quite literary in some instances) encounters with some of the biggest rock stars of the day.
Described by the Guardian as ‘one of the country’s finest pop culture historians’, Travis Elborough is the author of many books, including The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared, and Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.