Brighton Festival 2008: Mark E. Smith In Conversation-Uh (oh, and some other stuff)

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Festival line-up time! YAY! Looking forward to this (and not much else) IMMENSELY!

Mark E. Smith

24 May 2008 at 3pm

The Old Court House

£7.50

Mark E. Smith is The Fall: singer, lyricist, front man and sole survivor of one of the most distinctive and enduring British bands of the last 30 years. Born out of Britain's late 70s underground scene, The Fall soon became an Indie cult, their abrasive and literate post-punk aesthetic an acknowledged influence on all that followed, from The Smiths to Franz Ferdinand. Now, for the first time, Smith offers a candid and wry take on The Fall myth: the infighting, the incarceration, the drugs, the bankruptcy, the divorce and of course the music. For the Gospel according to Mark E. Smith, pray be seated...



The other stuff is here:

http://www.brightonfestival.org/

See anything you fancy?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I am going to try and get tickets for Luisito Quintero, but haven't studied the line up, in depth, for other events.

Am I right in thinking 'Streets of Brighton' has come to an end?

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Not a lot to be honest but then the festival fringe is more my bag

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Oh, and just spotted this also which looks well worth catching:

Gore Vidal
In conversation with Andrew Marr
22 May 2008 at 7.30pm

Concert Hall

£10



What do Tennessee Williams, JFK, Truman Capote, Anaïs Nin, Jack Kerouac, Paul Newman, Orson Welles and Leonard Bernstein have in common? They have all at one time or other entered the magnetic orbit of America's first man of letters - novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, raconteur and notorious wit Gore Vidal.

In a rare and unmissable UK visit, Vidal looks back over a remarkable six decade career: from his groundbreaking 1948 novel The City and the Pillar to coruscating critiques of Bush-era US expansionism. Along the way he has run for office, rescripted Ben Hur, starred in The Simpsons , acted for Fellini, battled with Norman Mailer, attempted to impeach the President and still found time to assemble one of the most defiantly individual bodies of work of the last century.

 

[Trufflehound]

Oh, and just spotted this also which looks well worth catching:

Gore Vidal
In conversation with Andrew Marr
22 May 2008 at 7.30pm

Does he still make shampoo?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Does he still make shampoo?

Not since Norman Mailer gave him a slap