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I no longer write a regular blog, but do occasionally post information and ideas in this section, and have also create a separate Arthur Russell blog, which will contain regular updates on the biography as well as general Arthur news. You can track the Arthur blog via the home page or the Arthur Russell page. Otherwise, scroll down and click to view.

Arthur Russell blog

If I've been even quieter than usual on the blog front, that's not because I've backed away from blogging altogether, but because I thought it would be good to create a continuously running blog for my biography of Arthur Russell, which has just been published. You can find the blog by

Kiss Me Again: Mapping the Life and Legacy of Arthur Russell

The composer and musician Arthur Russell lived and worked in New York between 1973 and 1992. During his time in the city he performed and recorded compositional music, pop music, disco, new wave, songs for the cello, and hip-hop-inflected electronic pop. As any listener of his music

Plan-B and Other Speaking

I've been invited to talk about Arthur Russell at Plan B's inaugural annual lecture -- or something like that -- on Friday 21 November. I suggested it would be good if I spoke after a screening of Wild Combination, the Arthur Russell movie directed by Matt Wolf, so that's what's going to

Wild Combination at the ICA

The London premiere of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell -- a film by Matt Wolf -- will take place at the ICA on 26 September 2008. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, hosted by myself, and a launch party in the ICA bar featuring an Arthur Russell inspired DJ

Feminist/Queer Desires

I was invited by Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, to present a paper on the theme of "Disco and the Queer Dance Floor" at the third annual Gender and Theory Conference, which took place on Wednesday 11 June 2008. The conference was

Our party with David Mancuso at the Light

A thousand daffodils came to bloom last Sunday in the concrete surroundings of "lower Shoreditch", which shares with TriBeKa the strange experience of housing a Bohemian-oriented culture on the border of one of global capitalism's uncompromising centres ⎯ London's financial

Once Upon A Time

BBC 4 are screening a one-hour documentary about music in New York during the 1970s that looks like it could be good. I was interviewed for the programme late last year and know that David Mancuso was interviewed for the programme, too. I'm pretty optimistic it'll be more

Roger Sanchez's Choice

I've just posted a set of sleeve notes I wrote for Azuli's Roger Sanchez Choice. I'm quite pleased with the way it's all come out, although to begin with I had my doubts about getting involved in the project. I remember being quite into a number of Sanchez's early 1990s releases on Stricly

Arthur Russell update

It is possible to blame Italy for many things, but my recent absence from the Blogging sphere is not one of them given that we returned from Rome over a fortnight ago. No, I've been steering clear of Blogland because I've been trying to wrap up a "good draft" of my

Last Sunday's party

Well, we had another great party with David Mancuso (the Loft) at the Light on Sunday. Hearing Ame's "Rej" on our system was a particular highlight. Having my friend Matthew Ingram -- Woebot, the great dance music blogger, to most --