Last week we had the pleasure of launching Inferno: A Genealogy of 1960s Trash Culture by Ken Hollings, hosted at Bloomsbury's iconic Horse Hospital. Strange Attractor would like to thank everyone involved for joining us in trash reveleries and in making Inferno's arrival one to remember.
Unfortunately, The Horse Hospital has come under threat of closure. If you would like to help this fantastic venue keep its doors open, you can sign a petition, a letter of support, or donate to the cause by following the details on their website.
Ways to save The Horse Hospital HERE
Sign the petition HERE
With thanks to Rachel Hollings and Cathy Ward for photos
A journey deep into the heart of the trash experience, Inferno tells tales from the underground and exploitation movie scenes of America during the 1960s. Inferno examines and celebrates some of our most abject and vulgar cultural shrapnel, and with it, our longstanding devotion to trash.
Inferno - available to order HERE
400pp, Paperback
34 b/w images (approx)
ISBN: 9781907222795
£15.99
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In other news, Andy Roberts' Divine Rascal has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books!
"Provocative... engrossing... Roberts’s biography reads like a novel, each chapter gradually laying bare the mythic presence of Michael Hollingshead."
- James Penner
Full review available to read HERE
Divine Rascal available to order HERE
304pp fully illustrated b/w 148 x 210 mm
PB & HB
ltd Hardback (200 copies)
£16.99 / £25.00
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A reminder that Graham Duff's Foreground Music has been made available as an audiobook! Free to listen to on Amazon's Audible, Graham himself narrates the tales of 40 years of musical evolution and subversive subcultures.
“A must have for those of us who escaped our parents’ terrible musical tastes. A love letter to the music and period that defined a generation. Full of joy and pathos, it left me yearning for a world before ‘X Factor’ when music was about something.”
– Steve Coogan
