A special book Launch event for 'Until Now: A Life In Pictures 1982 - 1986 by Beezer'. Featuring images of Ari Up, Mark Stewart, Gil Scott Heron, Pulp, The WIld Bunch, Glastonbury Festival, WOMAD, Notting Hill Carnival, Lily Allen, Andi Oliver and many more. Published by PC-Press in a lavish hardback editions, also available in paperback these two books (Book Alpha and Book Beta) document the rise of DJ Culture, street life, subculture and life in 1980s Britain.
Beezer will be in discussion with Sian Pattenden plus Ralph Moore will be reading from his book 'On Tour: A Wild Ride in the Dance Music Press'. Afterwards there is a DJ set from Alex Turnball.
'Beezer is an amazing photographer and this collection of images shows that in beautiful detail. But also, importantly, he is a historian capturing vital but too often untold moments of our culture, as they unfold before him.' Neneh Cherry
'It's just as important when someone behind the camera is actually part of that community. That's a very, very, important thing, those years (1982 - 1986) were very important in Bristol, in the wild, wild West as we call it, because you need someone on the inside able to capture these great, great moments. Beezer is that person. Inside Culture.' Goldie
'Seeing these pictures is like taking a deep dive into the deepest ocean of memories. Beezer has always had a way of being an intrinsic part of everything and at the same time he has always been possessed with an acutely observational forensic eye. Because he is also part of the energy, his pictures have an intimacy that it is impossible to manufacture. His pictures are our shared truth, our shared youth, our shared joy and pain and loss and triumph.' Andi Oliver
SIAN PATTENDEN
SiÔn Pattenden is a writer and artist. At sixteen she was the youngest playwright at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and has since written for Smash Hits, NME, the Face, Guardian, Select, and many many others. She has written and illustrated six children's books, which have been short-listed for many awards and has exhibited her artwork all over the UK. She has a podcast with Pete Paphides and also sings in her band The Sha Sha Shanimals.
RALPH MOORE
Ralph Moore is an electronic music consultant, broadcaster and now an author. From 2004-2024, he was a senior editor at Mixmag, where he wrote cover features with the likes of Bj÷rk, Sven Võth and K÷lsch.
On Tour is Ralph Moore's first book for Velocity Press and it mostly covers the golden era of print media's hardcore focus on club culture, when he worked as a full-time Editor for Muzik and later Mixmag.
