Panel Discussion - Joe Boyd & Bruce Findlay in discussion with John Cavanagh
Date:
10 Oct 2009
Time:
15:00 - 17:00
Venue:
Street Level Photoworks, ground floor
Admission:
Free
Booking Required:
No
"The times were truly changing and music was not only the soundtrack for the times, but was articulating how we felt by challenging the establishment and suggesting alternatives to right-wing/racist/bomb loving government." (Bruce Findlay)
Facilitated by John Cavanagh, this public talk will cover music making in 1960s Britain, its inseparability from the counterculture of the time, and its influence on the present. Joe Boyd has worked with and produced Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Toots and the Maytals, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Bragg, and many others. In the 60s Joe was involved with John Hoppy Hopkins in setting up London's first psychedelic club, UFO, and London Free School. In 1967 Bruce Findlay opened a record shop with his brother, and by the early 1970s this had grown into Scotland's best known record shop chain, specialising in American imports and underground rock.
Joe Boyd will be available for a signing of his book ‘White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s' directly after the talk.
