Lucy O'Brien

Attention fans of the music press! On June 5th, I’m on a panel at Stoke Newington Literary Festival with esteemed rock writers Charles Shaar Murray, Paul Morley and Simon Reynolds. Entitled ‘Juke Box Fury’, the panel will talk about the music that inspired them to write. For more info: www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com.... And on July 3rd I will be reading from She Bop at the ‘Scream Queens’ event at Bromley Literary Festival. Further info: www.forbookssake.net....Latest exciting CD news - US record label hyped2death.com is featuring tracks from my old band the Catholic Girls/Almost Cruelty on their new punk compilation: Messthetics 108: South Coast DIY ‘77-81. More tracks to follow on their forthcoming women and punk compilation Let’s Talk About Prams!

And plans are still afoot for a brand new third edition of She Bop, to tie in with ‘She-Bop-A-Lula’, a major London exhibition of rock photography next spring featuring over 50 female artists. Watch this space...Lastly, if you want to access any of my old interviews (from Debbie Harry to Roxanne Shante to Nina Simone), go to www.rocksbackpages.com, one of the biggest music-writing sites on the web. And here’s to a beautiful summer!

Lucy O'Brien Lucy O’Brien has been writing on music, feminism and popular culture, and creating fiction since the early 1980s. She grew up in Southampton, played in all-girl punk band The Catholic Girls, and graduated from Leeds University in 1983. Since starting out on NME, she has written for a range of titles including the Sunday Times, Marie Claire, the Guardian, Q and Mojo. She’s the author of Madonna: Like An Icon, She Bop and She Bop II and biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox. A regular ‘pundit’ on TV and radio, she also co-produced the C4 film Righteous Babes on rock and new feminism. She teaches in Media & Communications at London's Goldmith's College and Westminster University, and is currently working on a memoir that combines music, mysticism and magic.

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