Rave New World 2: Kirk Field & Ru Callender

Sound Affects is a monthly night of talks about music and subcultures, ideas around how sound affects us and how music changes the world. It's organised and hosted by journalist and documentary filmmaker
This event is at the Nightingale Rooms, upstairs at the Grand Central pub
This is a special event with writers Kirk Field and Ru Callender. After Kirk's hilarious and insightful Rave New World talk back in 2023, he's back with a brand new talk/show. Ru is speaking at Sound Affects for the first time.
Guest speakers:
Kirk Field: Journalist and raver who has been documenting dance music and rave culture since June 1989, spurred into action after reading the inaccurate and hysterical tabloid reports of the acid house party he’d just attended. His new book ‘Planes, Trains & Amphetamines’ is about what happens when UK rave culture went abroad and changed holidays forever. From high jinks on the high seas and insanity in Ibiza to playing in the powder of the Austrian Alps and psychic silliness on the Costa del Sol, this is the story of what happened when Kirk pioneered a new kind of tourism.
Ru Callender: ‘Master of MuMumification’ Ru Callender explains why he’s building a pyramid of human ashes for The KLF in Toxteth and how he incorporates punk and rave ethos into funerals. The meaning of life, death and crop circles. His new book ‘What Remains?’ is out now.
Doors at 7 and it starts at 7.30.
Tickets available now.
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