Plectrum - The Cultural Pick Live Edition

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Plectrum-The Cultural Pick Live Edition
presents an evening of love in peril
live music, spoken word, film screenings, and more

Literary Rock ‘n’ Roll with
Nina Antonia
in conversation with Guy Sangster Adams
and telling electric guitar accompanied doomed love stories of the jeunesse brûlée (burned youth) of the 1960s/1970s
“The smartest chick I’ve ever met” – Johnny Thunders
“Watch Nina write, she riots” - Peter Doherty

Deadcuts’
Mark Keds and Jerome Alexandre
playing an exclusive electro-acoustic set
“perilous poetry and haunting riffs, feral mysticism and deadbeat glamour” – Nina Antonia

Whilst on screen love takes its chances on the streets of London in two short films:

Crossfire (Ed Edwards, 2011, 9 mins)
Screening introduced by the film’s producer, Sam Edwards
Filmed on location amidst the civil unrest on the streets of central London in 2011.
A couple unwittingly get caught up in a riot during a day out in London.

The Rocking Horse (James Scott, 1962, 25 mins)
Screening by arrangement with the BFI
Filmed on location on the streets of London’s Soho and West End in 1959-1960.
A chance love affair between a motorcycle riding rocker and an artist.

The evening will be hosted by Guy Sangster Adams, editor of Plectrum – The Cultural Pick magazine


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