Travis Elborough

Event: Punk, Porn and Performance with Dorothy ‘Max’ Prior and Dave ‘Barbarossa’ Barbe, Tuesday 15th November, doors 6.30 pm, The Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6LQ

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News: Ian Jack

Very sad to hear the news of Ian Jack’s death, he commissioned and edited The Bus We Loved so I owe him a great deal. My thoughts are with his family, friends and former colleagues, he was a great writer and real editor – he went through the first draft of Bus like a locust, improving it immeasurably but also encouraged my use of footnotes in that book to give it more playful tone than was usual in transport books then and probably since.

I learnt a lot about what not to do from him and have always tried to heed much of his advice ever since. It must have worked to some extent because he later commissioned me to do a cover story for The Oldie on parks and told me he’d enjoyed A Walk in the Park.

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Event: Memorex: Words, pictures, music and magnetic reels with The Pathfinders, Cathi Unsworth and Opal X hosted by Travis Elborough, 4 November, 7pm, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London WC1N 1JD

In conversation and alive: **The Pathfinders**’ **Roger Cleghorn** and **Malcolm Garrett.** In her own words: **Cathi Unsworth**. Into the future: **Opal X**.
Hosted by **Travis** **Elborough**

**The Pathfinders**’ **Roger Cleghorn** and **Malcolm Garrett** met in the late 70s when studying art and design at **Manchester Polytechnic**. Moving to London they shared a flat on the 15th floor of a tower block in the Isle of Dogs. Here they recorded a series of experiments, captured directly on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. **The Pathfinders** could hardly be described as being musicians who jammed together and with almost 40 years having elapsed since recording, memories are sketchy with regard to who made what noise where. **Travis Elborough** will interview **Cleghorn** and **Garrett** to see what can be recalled and **The Pathfinders** will share unheard archive material in their live debut.
**Cathi Unsworth**’s Johnny Remember Me was originally commissioned by Brighton’s Literary Loogster **Jay Clifton** for his ***Peripheral Vision*** series of live screen talks, in which authors were requested to pick a movie and spin off a character or situation from the film into an original short story. **Cathi** writes:
“I have always been somewhat obsessed with the **John Leyton** song, and while researching the life and times of its producer and co-writer **Joe Meek** for ***Bad Penny Blue***s, had pause to wonder why it was that he ended up with **Johnny Kidd**‘s band as **The Tornados** – but without **Johnny**. The song being so evocative of curses and ghosts, I wove a little urban myth of my own.“
To close the evening, to shoot us into the future: a live performance by **Opal X.**
**Opal X i**s the latest project of London based electronic musician **Astrud Steehouder**, fusing a sound that is equally inspired by early **Mute**, **Sähkö** & American noise metal. Recent projects include the ***Twister*** album for **The Tapeworm** described by **Boomkat** as “a sort of dank hypnagogic sound mulched from zonked electronics, gynoid vox and graveyard atmospheres” & as one third of the **NONEXISTENT** drone project released by legendary UK industrial label **Downwards** in 2020. The show at **The Horse Hospital** will be the London live debut of the **Opal X** project and promises to engulf the evening in a crushing cold wave of Goth ASMR Hardcore.

Remember, remember – the 4th of November…

https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/tapeworm

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Travis Elborough

Event: Bone Music: An Evening of Film and Conversation with Stephen Coates, Tuesday 22 November, 6.30pm, Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road

Picture: Interviewing Graham Fellows (aka John Shuttleworth) at the Rio Cinema

Books: Extract from The Writer’s Journey published on Bookanista

Books: The Writer’s Journey

Event: Punk, Porn and Performance with Dorothy ‘Max’ Prior and Dave ‘Barbarossa’ Barbe, Tuesday 15th November, doors 6.30 pm, The Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6LQ

Books: The Writer’s Journey Book of the Month at the Battersea Bookshop

News: Ian Jack

Event: Memorex: Words, pictures, music and magnetic reels with The Pathfinders, Cathi Unsworth and Opal X hosted by Travis Elborough, 4 November, 7pm, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London WC1N 1JD

Picture: Interviewing Mike Batt and Will Hodgkinson at Foyles

Pictures: Launching The Writer’s Journey at Stanfords

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