Three men who were outcasts in their time are being honoured as the icons they are today. William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac – the leaders of the Beat Generation – are each the subject of a film recently, or soon to be, released. The Beat Generation was a group of friends...
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London has seen more protests on its streets in the past six months than in the more than six years I have been living in the city. Students marched in November 2010 over news that Nick Clegg, deputy Prime Minister, had U-turned on his pre-election pledge to scrap university tuition fees, and was now...
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Patti Smith, the punk poet high priestess of the late sixties and seventies, read from her new book ‘Just Kids’ at London’s Southbank Foyles store recently. Smith, a former book store worker herself, told how she enjoyed the opportunity to embrace the bibliophile within, and the intimate setting that a bookstore reading afforded. She...
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A series of pictures of Patti Smith. London – South Bank Foyles; 20 March 2010. Pictures by Amy Freeborn
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There’s always a high level of scepticism when it comes to actors moving into the musical field; but for Hollywood actress Juliette Lewis, it is in music that she’s found the role she was born to play – as the front woman of punk-rock outfit, Juliette And The Licks. By the age of six,...
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