Name: Through the Looking Glasses Presents: A Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
Start: 2023-12-09T19:00:00+00:00
Location: London Horse Hospital Colonnade

LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Saturday 9th December, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

“They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.” - Tom Waits

This month it will be 74 years since the singer-songwriter and actor Tom Waits was born in a taxi cab outside a hospital in Pomona, California, on 7 December 1949. Join us for an evening of words, flickering pictures, scratched discs and unspooled cassettes, celebrating this most mercurial of American artists in the company of his biographer Barney Hoskyns, hosted by author Travis Elborough.

Barney Hoskyns is the author of Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, a career-spanning survey of one of rock's great enigmas and a book hailed as the definitive account of this shape-shifting survivor's highs, lows, ones-for-the-road and on-the-wagon ongoing legacy. Co-founder and editorial director of online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages and former US correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns is one of the finest music writers of his generation and the author of many acclaimed books, including Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996) and Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005).

Described by The Guardian as ‘one of the country’s finest pop culture historians’, Travis Elborough is an award-winning author, whose books include Atlas of Vanishing Places and The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared.