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‘Strawberry and the Big Apple: Grace Jones in Stockport, 1980’ is the last (eighth) in Dave Haslam’s short format Art Decades series. Dave Haslam explains a seemingly unlikely scenario: the day in 1980 when glamorous, jet-setting Grace Jones visited post-industrial Stockport to meet A Certain Ratio, with a view to working together. The location of the encounter; Strawberry Studios. Worlds collide! More info https://www.confingopublishing.uk/shop
Go here for information on ALL the books in the series; https://www.confingopublishing.uk/shop
DJ GIGS 2025
***Saturday January 25th 2025*** Dave Haslam DJing at Kable, New Wakefield St, Manchester. Fundraiser for the Fighting to be Heard Secondary Breast Cancer Foundation INFO https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/Kable-Club/Listen-Up-Manchester/40438060/
***Friday Feb 28th 2025*** ‘Yellow’ – Dave Haslam DJing at Night & Day, Oldham St, Manchester. Guest DJs Soul Boutique. Tickets available here; https://www.seetickets.com/event/yellow-with-dave-haslam-soul-boutique-tickets/the-night-and-day-cafe/3257569
***Saturday March 1st*** Dave Haslam DJing at Ravenswood Eat or Heat fundraiser, Walthamstow, London alongside DJs Psychemagick, X-Press 2 etc. INFO https://www.instagram.com/p/DEqGD3UIu5S/?img_index=2
***Friday March 7th 2025*** Dave Haslam DJing at the Golden Lion, Todmorden. Tickets available here; https://ra.co/events/2073614
Close Up
A series of onstage in-conversations, with Dave Haslam interviewing musicians, writers, actors and artists discussing their life and work. ‘Close Up’ events have featured the likes of writers Jonathan Franzen, Colson Whitehead, Michael Chabon, and Jackie Kay; the artist Jeremy Deller; musicians John Lydon, Kevin Rowland, David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Black Francis from the Pixies, Tracey Thorn, Wayne Coyne and Nile Rodgers; and actors John Thomson and Maxine Peake.
This onstage interview series has also gone abroad. In Jan 2014 Dave interviewed Laurent Garnier at the first of a series of ‘Close Up’ events at Silencio, Paris. In April 2016 he interviewed designer Peter Saville at Santeria, Milan. Some transcripts archived here
To contact Dave email: dave@davehaslam.com