Live with Dotun Adebayo & Greg Tate in NYC for BBC Radio 5 Up All Night..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f25d7

Very exciting to be talking about 40 Years of Hiphop with 2 such top gents, thinkers & artists for BBC Radio 5's Up All Night... Dotun Adebayo & Greg Tate & - oh yes, Rakim....

They're digging my Flying Lizards song Herstory in New Zealand!

http://www.offthetracks.co.nz/tag/vivien-goldman/

interviewing for Ornette Doc at Celebrate Brooklyn w debut of DENARDO COEMAN VIBE, Patti SMith, Laurie Amdrson, Thurston Moore...

http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2014/06/12/celebrate-brooklyn-presents-the-music-of-ornette-coleman-featuring-denardo-coleman-vibe

Say YES to NoLa... Bounce vs. Vogue in a cultural face-off... a lovely longform article in OkayPlayer.com

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/nola-bounce-vogue-dance-together-video-vivien-goldman.html

Vivien does New Orleans Bounce vs. NY Vogue with Okayplayer.com... first vibes... There's Nowhere Like Nola...

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/dance-nola-bounce-vogue-big-freedia-new-orleans-jazzfest-photos.html#slide1


Here are the first vibes of a full-on piece...

Meet me at the Met?

I have not been updating my own website but that is about to change! First off, let me introduce the fabulous talk I am having with clever Ian Alteveer at the Metropolitan Musum of Art on the morning of Friday July 26 2013.... and then watch me backtrack and try and put some of what I;ve been up to on my neglected site! Out of site -- out of mind!

 http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/talks/gallery-talks/punk-music-and-contemporary-art.aspx?eid=A001_{1EEB0C5D-4912-4FEB-B128-661A850B890E}_20130508163016

A Punk Tale of Two Cities

Tune in to BBC Radio 6 on Sunday for Vivien Goldman's big Punk London/New York doc, 'A Punk Tale of Two Cities' 3-5 p.m. in NY, 8-10p.m. in the UK!

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE
You can download the whole show from Monday, for a week!

These days, Vivien Goldman teaches about Punk at New York University and they call her The Punk Professor. But back in the times we're speaking about, from about 1976 to 1982, when she was one of approximately two female punk rock journalists in the UK, the whole idea of teaching Punk in a university would have been laughable. Writing for what was then a thriving weekly throng of music papers, Vivien found herself embedded in the Punk community, sharing a flat with Chrissie Hynde, forming the Flying Lizards, being produced by John Lydon. She is an absolute authority on the musical, social & political impact of punk.

She has also written extensively on reggae and its relationship with Punk. As a popular anti-authoritarian mass youth uprising, Punk, was one of the most significant social movements of the late twentieth century, and now kids round the world, from Bahrain to Indonesia to Russia, still naturally turn to the punk genre almost automatically, to express their rage. The yell of our first sort, sharp punk shock is still echoing and at this rate, will never die.

A Punk Tale of Two Cities answers a question that Punk people love to debate - where did punk begin? London or New York? Other cities try to stake a claim - Paris, for example, or Los Angeles. But everyone knows they're non-starters, really. The tension, the energy of punk, crackled between London and New York.

In this show, we'll rip the duality apart and see where punk really started. Or not. After all, Punk was never supposed to be an easy answer.

Along the way there are new insights from those who shaped Punk on both sides of the Atlantc - John Lydon, Talking Heads, Neneh Cherry, The Slits, Don Letts, Chrissie Hynde, Public Enemy, Lenny Kaye, Dennis Bovell and Patti Smith.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010xy0m

Today is the 30th Anniversary of Bob's passing... but just as he wrote about Haile Selassie, BOB LIVES!
People still want to listen to and reflect on him. I am doing two radio pieces today, one for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and this one for BBC Radio2, an actual documentary on BOB IN EXILE - the London years that I cover in The Book of Exodus - presented by Original I 3, Marcia Griffiths.

Village Voice. Poly Styrene and the Grown Women of Punk

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-05-04/music/poly-styrene-lost-found/


Very happy indeed to do this article for the Village Voice on a generation of Grown Women Punks, spiraling from the loss of Poly Styrene of X Ray Spex and the Slits' Ari Up within six months.

David Byrne article FADER

http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/29/feature-david-byrne-the-artist-on-an-adventure-he-knows-will-last-forever/


Curiously this article I wrote ages ago seems to have just manifested online, according to Google Alerts anyway. One of two I did on David Byrne last year. Go figure.