The Wire Salon

Thursday 8th July, 8pm

A monthly series of salon events, hosted by The Wire magazine, and dedicated to the fine art and practice of thinking and talking about music.

The series continues in July with an event that examines the collision of auto-destructive art, proto-psychedelia, free jazz, noise and sound poetry that occurred at the fringes of the UK's swinging 60s counterculture. Author/musician David Toop, curator Mathieu Copeland, and Syd Barrett biographer Rob Chapman, author of A Very Irregular Head, will lead a discussion on the practices and philosophies that linked such quintessential underground figures as artists John Latham and Gustav Metzger, free jazz pioneer Joe Harriott, Pink Floyd, improvisors John Stevens and AMM, composer Annea Lockwood, and sound/text poet Bob Cobbing. The panel will also debate how their work continues to impact on today's radical artists and musicians. Plus, screenings of the original 16mm prints of films by 60s experimental film maker Jeff Keen, including the legendary Marvo Movie; and Edwin Pouncey spinning Othersounds of the 60s.

Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL

Admission £4

via Sharon Borthwick

Plus

An exhibition is running at Flat Time House between 24th June - 25th July.

And the John Latham Anarchive Exhibition runs at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 2nd April - 5th September.