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I am appearing at the Ramsgate Festival, talking about vinyl and records on Saturday 29th and the English seaside on Sunday 30th August.

Full details here:

http://ramsgatearts.org/ramsgate-festival-2015

Link here:

http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/top-100-holiday-reads#gallery-70

I am delighted to have a piece in the new issue of The Happy Reader. My contribution is about Corsica, Super 8 films and er… Jim Morrison and The Doors.

Order a copy here;

https://www.thehappyreader.com/issues/3

‘Writer Travis Elborough in collaboration with director Paul Kelly presents a screening of The Ace of Clubs, a new short film that marks the culmination of Elborough’s Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency 2014 -15.

The Ace of Clubs draws on Elborough’s investigations into the history of Victoria Park, its many leisure clubs and the importance of the park as a recreational space. The film compiles footage shot by Kelly over the course of Elborough’s Games for May event series and includes interviews with members of Victoria Park’s model boating and bowling clubs, offering a wry mediation on hobbies, place, and belonging.’

Click here to reserve a ticket:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/travis-elborough-the-ace-of-clubs-screening-tickets-17581763528

Saint Etienne do the honours once again for a rare perform of ‘How We Used To Live’ with live soundtrack at NFT1 on London’s Southbank at 9.30pm on Friday 24th July. The screening forms part of a season of over 200 films about London shown by the BFI this summer (details below). The film will be followed by a DJ set from Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Travis Elborough in the Benugo Bar. This is the last live soundtrack performance for the forceable future so it’s likely the event will sell out quickly. Tickets go on sale at 11.30am today (9th June) priced just £16 or £12 concs and are available here: http://bit.ly/1dZCcbf

The V is for Victoria. But the A came as a surprise. Alexandra rather than Albert: the old Queen’s daughter in law, rather than her much-mourned German consort, with his hall, memorial and a kind of piercing….

Read on or not, as the case may be:
http://chisenhale.org.uk/archive/offsite/index.php?id=37