Nick Drake and the Late 1960s Folk Scene

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TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR: Bookings can be made until midnight on the night before the event. Any of the seats that haven't been booked online will be sold for £10 on the door. The rest of the tickets available on the door will be £5 standing room tickets. For most events we'll have at least eleven of these, which will be available from 6.30pm that evening. Payment by cash or QR code only.


Our guests, the novelist James Wilson and Nick Drake’s authorised biographer Richard Morton Jack, will be talking to the writer Cathi Unsworth about Drake, the late 1960s British folk scene, and James Wilson’s Drake-inflected novel, The Pieces. 



Guest speakers:

Richard Morton Jack's previous books include Labyrinth (2024), Galactic Ramble (2019), Psychedelia (2017) and Endless Trip (2010). He edits the occasional music history magazine Flashback and has overseen definitive reissues of many classic rock, jazz and folk albums. He also co-founded the music marketplace and archive elvinyl.com, which launched in 2020.

James Wilson is the author of six previous novels: The Dark Clue, The Bastard Boy, The Woman in the Picture, Consolation, The Summer of Broken Stories , and Coyote Fork. He has also written plays, radio and TV documentaries, and a prize-winning work of narrative non-fiction, The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America. His work has been translated into nine languages.

Cathi Unsworth began her writing career on the legendary music weekly Sounds. Her journalism has subsequently appeared in The Guardian, Bizarre, The Financial Times, Melody Maker, The Fortean Times and Uncut. She has also published six crime novels and two works on nonfiction, the most recent of which is Season of the Witch: the Book of Goth.