Dave Haslam book event with Jeff Young Tickets

Marking the publication of Dave Haslam’s new short format book about Pablo Picasso’s Paris nightlife, Dave and Jeff Young (Ghost Town) will be discussing the phantoms and inspirations of cities; memories; music; the cultural value of late night venues; Picasso, and punk; Eric’s and the Hacienda; and the links between art and life after dark.

Dave Haslam is a former DJ at the Hacienda in Manchester, a journalist and the author of several other full-length and short format books. His memoir, Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor (2018) was proclaimed Book of the Year by Gilles Peterson. His current project is 'Art Decades', a series of short format books; subjects have included Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, and the Angry Brigade. The new title - Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife - is the seventh book in the series.

Jeff Young’s book ‘Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay’
was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Prize. His next book has been announced - Wild Twin, which explores the author’s early adulthood hitch-hiking to Paris in the 1970s. Described by his publishers as an “Orwellian travel book…shot through with Jeff’s extraordinary, almost hallucinogenic vision”.