Author seeks London venue for Neutral Milk Hotel reading

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I wrote a book for Continuum's 33 1/3 series of little books about great albums, on Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over The Sea" and the Elephant 6 collaborative community that helped birth it.

I'll be in London on November 7, and hope to find a free venue where I could read from and sign the book.

Unfortunately, Continuum's UK publicist has just left her post, so I'm left with very little time to find a venue, and via email at that. I have already contacted Rough Trade, Fopp, Crockatt & Powell, Foyle's, 56a, Pogo Cafe, All Ages Records, Sister Ray, Haggle, Phonica, Sound 323, Sounds of the Universe, Beanos and Disque.

Any sort of space where folks can gather would do, gallery, book or record shop, cafe, church, pub, etc. Any suggestions much appreciated... and if you manage to book a reading, I'll send you a bunch of copies of my zine, Scram, and stand you a pint if you attend.

Here are some reviews of the book:
http://www.scrammagazine.com/nmhreviews

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Kim Cooper
Editrix
Scram, a journal of unpopular culture

― Kim Cooper (editrix), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

contact me at amway@gmail.com. I have some exciting news to share.

― The PappaWheelie Story: Half Brain, Half Soul, All Mouth (on sale now) (PappaWhe, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Amway?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I like Scram. I read a hilarious thing about spy jazz on there yesterday which made me chuckle quite a lot.

― Kinky Fantastic (Kinky Fantastic), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

jeremy barnes is playing london on the 5th Nov as part of a hawk and a hacksaw, maybe you could hook up for an instore at rough trade or something if he's still in town ( he may well not be but, y'know, it's a nmice idea...)

― cw (cww), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

You could ask on I Love Books, they might know somewhere.

The Poetry Place on Betterton Street?

Address: 22 Betterton Street London WC2H 9BX

Telephone: 020-7420-9880

Companies House
Registration Number: 3173544

http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

...and let us know where you end up.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting piece about what happned to one of the band's members (warning;contains Petridis)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1882953,00.html

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

How's about Boogaloos pub at 312 Archway Road?

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

... or indeed the Horse Hospital at Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX -020 7833 3644

Know I'm going to go help a blind person cross the road.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

'NOW'

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the great suggestions. I think we have a venue, Pogo Cafe in Hackney. Yay! This will be the evening of November 7, final details still to be determined.

http://www.pogocafe.co.uk/

― Kim Cooper (editrix), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

And here are the final details on the London reading, plus Paris. Thanks again for all the help!

As part of a mini 33 1/3 series book tour, I will be reading from and signing copies of my little book about Neutral Milk Hotel in Paris on November 1 and in London on November 7. It would be lovely to see some of your at these events. Details are below...

PARIS:
1 November 2006 (Day of the dead) from 5pm
Martyrs of pop presents:
Public reading from: Kim Cooper (from L.A.) reading extracts from her work on Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Under the Sea (collection 33 1/3) - in English with French text available. Also: Pierre MikaÃ¯loff (from Paris) reading from "Some ClichÃ©s" (l'Harmattan) - in French, Miles Marshall Lewis reading from his work on Sly and the Family Stone's "There's a Riot Going On" (collection 33 1/3) - in English and Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe reading extracts from the "Lost in the Grooves" anthology on Jeanette, Polnareff, Michel Magne and Brigitte Fontaine - in French. Plus musical selections in indie pop, soul/funk and the unclassifiable from DJ Bertrand Burgalat (Tricatel), DJ Dorian Gray, DJ Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe, DJ Frankeinsound

For more on Kim Cooper check www.scrammagazine.com
and on Martyrs of pop: www.martyrsofpop.com & www.myspace.com/martyrsofpop

Location: 76 Clarence Road, Hackney, London E5 8HB, Tel: 0208 533 1214
More info and directions: http://www.pogocafe.co.uk/map/

The reading is free, and there will be vegan cakes and tea available.

― Kim Cooper (editrix), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ahem, In the Aeroplane OVER the Sea, rather (my French friend, his English is better than my French, but my proofreading, not so much...)

― Kim Cooper (editrix), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

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