Brighton Book Launch and New Talk: David Bramwell's Ghosts of the Medicine Show
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Five years in the making, Ghosts of the Medicine Show is a personal and psychological journey through the wilder corners of modern entertainment history.Learn how and why our greatest artists, performers and celebrities owe their tricks, skills and worship to the shaman’s age-old medicine show and how we as an audience are, more than ever, a congregation in need of healing.
Inspired by Rogan Taylor's Death and Resurrection Show (which has remained out of print since 1985), Ghosts of the Medicine Show reframes Taylor's big ideas in our digital age: with an exploration of 'shaman' like artists that include Brighton's Marissa Carnesky, Nick Cave and David Devant and His Spirit Wife, together with the likes of Alice Coltrane, Ozzy, Yoko Ono, Jesse Darling, Fever Ray, David Hoyle, Kate Bush and, of course, David Bowie. In an age of soul sickness, we need our Bowies more than ever. The show must go on because the show IS the medicine.
For this book launch I'll be giving a brand new 45-minute talk and readings, peppered with audio and visual clips and maybe even a bit of audience participation (in a good way).
Ghosts of the Medicine Show is beautifully designed by Erica Smith and printed in full colour.
The publication is entirely self-funded; if you'd like to purchase a copy you can do so at the launch with an exclusive £5 discount.
Five years in the making, Ghosts of the Medicine Show is a personal and psychological journey through the wilder corners of modern entertainment history.Learn how and why our greatest artists, performers and celebrities owe their tricks, skills and worship to the shaman’s age-old medicine show and how we as an audience are, more than ever, a congregation in need of healing.
Inspired by Rogan Taylor's Death and Resurrection Show (which has remained out of print since 1985), Ghosts of the Medicine Show reframes Taylor's big ideas in our digital age: with an exploration of 'shaman' like artists that include Brighton's Marissa Carnesky, Nick Cave and David Devant and His Spirit Wife, together with the likes of Alice Coltrane, Ozzy, Yoko Ono, Jesse Darling, Fever Ray, David Hoyle, Kate Bush and, of course, David Bowie. In an age of soul sickness, we need our Bowies more than ever. The show must go on because the show IS the medicine.
For this book launch I'll be giving a brand new 45-minute talk and readings, peppered with audio and visual clips and maybe even a bit of audience participation (in a good way).
Ghosts of the Medicine Show is beautifully designed by Erica Smith and printed in full colour.
The publication is entirely self-funded; if you'd like to purchase a copy you can do so at the launch with an exclusive £5 discount.
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Where is it happening?
Nightingale Brighton, Grand Central,Brighton and Hove, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Host or PublisherThe Brighton Odditorium
