As befits the first surge of spring, there's been much activity my end. Pollen notwithstanding. Here's some of it:
I'm happy to say that this month I have 2 front cover stories on the stands... how quaint does that sound!....one on BETH DITTO for OUT and one essay on David Byrne for FADER.... here's Beth in all her glory of every kind...
http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=25015
I haven't got a link for the Byrne piece, but Fader's editor Julianne Shepherd encouraged a return to the old-school more free-flowing, less rigid style of writing the aesthetic I came up in in the UK rock press when it was a vibrant force and trained a whole generation of writers...
Also WORD magazine in the UK, edited by charming Mark Ellen, ran a piece on musicians lecturing and there's an interview with me plus a pic of me reading from THE BOOK of EXODUS to the audience at NY's Fillmore, before Family Man's WAILERS came onstage.... and here's a link to that reading...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60QbvTeYNw
Special one love shout-outs to Pete Shelton, Charlie Shelton, Charles Nuckolls and Joly of punkcast.com for working with me like family to make it happen.
Vivien Goldman in brief:
Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator and broadcaster and cult post-punk musician. A Londoner, Goldman has lived in Paris and now resides in New York.
A widely published and anthologized journalist, Goldman's fifth book is "The Book of Exodus: the Making and Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Album of the Century" (Three Rivers Press) described as "vivid and intimate" by Rolling Stone. Her previous books are Marley's first biography, "Soul Rebel Natural Mystic" (with photographer Adrian Boot); 'The Black Chord," (with photographer David Corio,) tracing the flow of music through the African Diaspora; and "Pearl's Delicious Jamaican Dishes" a Jamaican cookbook she co-authored with Pearl Bell, the chef of Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell.
Stroll through this site and find many articles by/about Goldman. My Media include the New York Times, Fast Company, the UK Guardian and New Statesman and more...
She is the Adjunct Professor of Punk and Reggae at NYU Tisch School's Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music. Her multi-media lectures have been presented at venues including Columbia University, St. George's University, onstage at Hamburg's Kampnagel Theatre and at the Museum of Modern Art in Leon, Spain.
Goldman's music is often re-issued. Try 'Anti-NY' on which she appears alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat; 'Disco Not Disco'; Chicks On Speed's 'Girl Monster' featuring Goldman's "lover's ragga" take on Craig David's "Seven Days"; and 'Wild Dub', alternative dub from The Clash and Grace Jones. Her work with The Flying Lizards has been re-issued in Japan. All of the above are available on I-Tunes (hopefully!)
You know where to find me....
A widely published and anthologized journalist, Goldman's fifth book is "The Book of Exodus: the Making and Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Album of the Century" (Three Rivers Press) described as "vivid and intimate" by Rolling Stone. Her previous books are Marley's first biography, "Soul Rebel Natural Mystic" (with photographer Adrian Boot); 'The Black Chord," (with photographer David Corio,) tracing the flow of music through the African Diaspora; and "Pearl's Delicious Jamaican Dishes" a Jamaican cookbook she co-authored with Pearl Bell, the chef of Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell.
Stroll through this site and find many articles by/about Goldman. My Media include the New York Times, Fast Company, the UK Guardian and New Statesman and more...
She is the Adjunct Professor of Punk and Reggae at NYU Tisch School's Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music. Her multi-media lectures have been presented at venues including Columbia University, St. George's University, onstage at Hamburg's Kampnagel Theatre and at the Museum of Modern Art in Leon, Spain.
Goldman's music is often re-issued. Try 'Anti-NY' on which she appears alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat; 'Disco Not Disco'; Chicks On Speed's 'Girl Monster' featuring Goldman's "lover's ragga" take on Craig David's "Seven Days"; and 'Wild Dub', alternative dub from The Clash and Grace Jones. Her work with The Flying Lizards has been re-issued in Japan. All of the above are available on I-Tunes (hopefully!)
You know where to find me....
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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2 comments:
First, let me state that I am a longtime fan of The Flying Lizards, believing that the recording of TV is one of the richest, lushest, allegories of modern jazz.
Rockabilly/New Wave melding with old school trumpet.
Having said as much (and putting aside Paris) and the French I never learned, I must wonder aloud, "Will David Byrne ever write about Ms. Vivien Goldman?
I agree!
I love the Flying Lizards as well as your other work.
Now I know why it was sooooo funky!
Thank you for sharing.
~ Hobo Divine
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