Wednesday 4th September 2024, 6.30pm (SOLD OUT)
Join us for the launch of Bedsit Land, the terrific new book from Patrick Clarke! Drawing from archival material and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, the book follows iconic eighties pop duo Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career.
They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene; from transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho; from the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain.
Patrick will be in discussion with the wonderful Cathi Unsworth, author of Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth.
Patrick Clarke is a music journalist and live DJ. He is the deputy editor of the Quietus and a freelance contributor to the Guardian, NME, DIY Magazine and many more.
Cathi Unsworth began her career on the legendary music weekly Sounds at the age of nineteen, where she topped a poll to be named the Sounds journalist readers would most like to go for a drink with. Her popularity was down to her identification with gothic music.