Adventures in a Post Punk Wonderland
by Dorothy Max Prior
£18.99 / £30
ISBN: 9781913689810
432 pp. | 210x146mm
50+ photographs in BW & Colour.
Limited edition (300 copies) hardback with signed bookplate and 32pp full colour Psychic TV ephemera scrapbook.
“A welcome sequel to 69 Exhibition Road… Alive with Prior’s hunger for art, people and ideas” Claire Biddles, The Wire.
Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed memoir 69
Exhibition Road.
In this new volume focussing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her life as it becomes ever more surreal and bemusing: days drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV; exploring London and New York City’s queer clubbing undergrounds; weaving through the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence. Not to mention ballroom dancing, birthing babies, breastfeeding, and moving to Brighton to become a performance artist.
Wise, wry, and endlessly charming, this is a sparkling account of bold, adventurous creativity featuring cameos from Björk, Derek Jarman, Madonna, Ray Harryhausen and a host of others.
(PTV T shirt art featuring Max, by Val Denham)
Praise for 69 Exhibition Rd:
One of the best, and most surprising, memoirs from that period. I absolutely loved
it. Dylan Jones: GQ, i-D, Arena; author of These Foolish Things
A treasure trove of a life in punk and post punk. The next best thing to actually
being there. Mark Moore, S’Express and Umami Records; Madam JoJo’s DJ
Max’s adventures in a kind of wonderland are intimate, gossipy and funny, like the
confidences of a really cool best friend. Cathi Unsworth, author of Season of The
Witch: The Book of Goth
A rollicking adventure bursting with vividdetails. Max and her creatively iconoclastic
peers defied the stultifying conservatism of 1970s Britain and forged a technicolour
world of their own making. Andrea Feldman, Warped Reality Magazine
Max was there – from proto-punk performing and the early punk rock Sex shop scene, to drumming at the beginning of Adam and the Ants and the Monochrome Set, then on through post-punk with Rema-Rema and cyber-psychedelic-punk with Psychic TV.
Tom Vague
