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My friend Nina very kindly asked me if I would do the cover for her forthcoming book Jeunesse Brulée. It’s due out in the Spring through a French publisher. The display type is Bassish and clockwise from top left the illustrations are of Nancy Spungen, Nico, Michèle Breton and Peter Doherty. It’s still very much a work-in-progress of course and subject to all sorts of tweaks, changes and marketing people. Not least I don’t really know what Michèle Breton looks like and there don’t seem to be many clues on the unternet.

Model: Iris demonstrating the foils on the BIFA 2011 programme cover. Iris is Belle’s cousin and kindly agreed to fill in while Belle is on the road in Japan. Note to self: maybe re-draw Tessa’s lips before BIFA 2012.

Shep, Flash and Zeb from the world-famouse Orange Circus Band played two short sets of rollicking foot-tapping tunes from the Great Depression at the Underground Gallery last Friday night for the Exitstencil Press launch of My Tsunami of Euphoria. It was brill of course, and people scored books n prints, copped drinks and sang and danced along and everyone went home in a merry mood. Thanks fellers, you totally rule.

[That's Dee Dee Ramone projected on the wall to the left there, from Lech Kowalski's cult Johnny Thunders biopic Born to Lose – The Last Rock & Roll Movie, used with kind permission and all that]

On 24 October 1997 Dee Dee launched his autobiography Poison Heart (US title Lobotomy) with an acoustic set in the basement beneath the Helter Skelter bookshop, Denmark Street, London. It was a tiny yet super-exhilarating show and the photographs were shot on grainy, very high-speed 35mm film with available light.

12″ by 16″ (includes 1 inch border) black and white digital C-type Fuji matt print. Limited to 50 prints, each one hand-stamped, signed and numbered.

This edition is released to coincide with the Exitstencil Press residency (see previous post) at the Underground Gallery from 21 November to 5 December 2011 and is available for £40 here or from the gallery itself (for the duration of the Exitstencil show).

Truly I don’t mean to bang on about my (very profound and important) book but those very kind and public-spirited people at Exitstencil Press have organised a sort of launch for My Tsunami of Euphoria next week during their two-week residency at the Underground Gallery.

Please come!

It’s on Friday 25 November from 6.30 to 9pm at the Underground Gallery (6 Charing Cross Underground Arcade, The Strand, London WC2N 4HZ)

That’s next week!

I will be there, Lech Kowalski‘s rarely seen cult Johnny Thunders biopic Born to Lose – The Last Rock & Roll Movie will be projected (without sound) on the walls and the Orange Circus Band (banjo, mandolin, guitar) are playing rollicking, foot-tapping songs from The Great Depression. There’ll be books, prints and all the usual Exitstencil stuffs including a brand new book of drawings by Penny Rimbaud.

The Exitstencil residency runs from Monday 21 November till Monday 5 December. Please come to any and all of the events listed here. And if you’re on Facebook then it’s also listed here.

Of course, if you’d like a copy of my book before then here is the very best place you can pick it up from.

BIG LOVES YA BABY xxx

Nearly all the stuff about My Tsunami of Euphoria can be found in the post below (Book etc) but here is an up-to-date (I think) list of distributors and shops who are currently stocking it:

Me
Exitstencil Press
The Bookseller Crow
Southern Records
Dulwich Books
Housmans Radical Booksellers
AK Press
Active Distribution
Amazon

MY TSUNAMI OF EUPHORIA
DOMINIC THACKRAY - SELECTED WORK 1995-2012

The kind folk at Exitstencil Press are publishing a book of my work on 19 September 2011. I don’t mean to get carried away but it’s true to say that it’s very pretty. Penny Rimbaud and Lech Kowalski have kindly written the foreword and afterword. The first edition is limited to just 300 copies, hand-stamped and numbered.

The good people at Feedgeeks have given it a really lovely write-up here.

Ooooh, and it’s now on Amazon too (although some of the info is wrong/incomplete) but please get it from here if you can, much better for you, me, the planet, everyone this way.

ISBN 978-0-946381-03-6
64+4pp on 140/300gsm uncoated Cyclus Offset with tracing paper fly-leaves
138mm wide by 216mm deep, full colour throughout
RRP £12.50 and available here

Beautiful, witty and gently subversive, I love it
Jim Fields [End of the Century]

Cool and exciting and, most importantly, vibrant with ideas and images that could sit happily in any gallery
Richard Jobson [The Skids, 16 Years of Alcohol]

Dominic made Raindance cool by having a clue and bringing all these interesting people together. His work is truly delightful. It almost makes me forget how much I loathe all things British
Steve Grasse [Bikini Bandits, Evil Empire]

Smart, stylish and fabulous. I hope Dominic continues to follow his darkest instincts to create this shimmering thing he does
Suzanne Ballantyne [Raindance Film Festival]

[Please allow up to 14 days for UK delivery, 28 days for rest of the world]

Top read at Belle’s Literary Salon (for cool people) this week is Penny Rimbaud‘s This Crippled Flesh, available from the gangmasters at Bracketpress and all good bookshops.