Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn &
Performance
By Dorothy Max Prior
Max, as I always knew her in those happy punk /post-punk days, has a
gentleness and elegance of mind and body. Thank you Max for all the foresight
you have, and are showing. You’ve always heralded the future.
- Jordan
Before punk was even called ‘punk’ – when something
foul to most but the sweetest
nectar to the few was bubbling up from the depths
– there was Max.
- Ted Polhemus
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
Hi There,
We're launching pre-orders for Dorothy Max Prior's 69
Exhibition Road: Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn &
Performance today.
It's a vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an
adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as
an artist, and an individual...
While working as a photographer’s model, gallery usher, and exotic
dancer, Dorothy “Max” Prior witnessed the births of Adam and the
Ants, The Monochrome Set, The Sex Pistols, and Throbbing Gristle, as well as
drumming in her own cult band Rema Rema and recording with Industrial Records.
Her exuberant commentaries, each presented as a stand-alone episode,
illustrate the multilayered nature of the London music, art, and fashion worlds
of the late 1970s, and the overlap between the early punk scene with the
city’s rapidly evolving club and queer cultures.
