Strange Attractor Press presents… Sex Is No Emergency, a celebration of the new memoir by Dorothy Max Prior. Featuring rare films, sounds and images, as well as Dorothy Max Prior in conversation.
Doors: 7pm. Show 7:30-8pm.
Free entry but booking required
Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed memoir 69
Exhibition Road.
In this new volume focussing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her life as it becomes ever more surreal and bemusing: days drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV; exploring London and New York City’s queer clubbing undergrounds; weaving through the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence. Not to mention ballroom dancing, birthing babies, breastfeeding, and moving to Brighton to become a performance artist.
Wise, wry, and endlessly charming, this is a sparkling account of bold, adventurous creativity featuring cameos from Björk, Derek Jarman, Madonna, Ray Harryhausen and a host of others.
Dorothy Max Prior is the author of the acclaimed memoir 69 Exhibition Road (Strange Attractor Press 2023), editor of Total Theatre Magazine, and writes and edits for other arts publications. She also hosts the fortnightly Granny (Max) Takes a Trip show on Slack City Radio.
In other lives, Max was a punk muse, post-punk drummer (with Rema Rema and Psychic TV, amongst others) and exotic dancer. Somewhere along the way, she has taught ballroom dancing, and toured the world as a cabaret dancer, street theatre performer, choreographer and director. She lives in Brighton, England.