Irish musicians, designers and authors will gather next month to take part in what is being billed as Ireland's very first music book and fanzine festival.
Organised by Hope Collective and Irish Pop Archive in conjunction with Volume Records and IADT, Dún Laoghaire, guests and speakers at the event, which takes place over two Saturdays in Dún Laoghaire, will include members of veteran Irish bands such as Radiators from Space and Paranoid Visions.
On Record Store Day, 18 April, Volume Records will host author John Robb, Boff Whalley and Kevin Dunn in conversation with host, college lecturer Michael Mary Murphy, about recent music books.
The following Saturday is the main day-long event in the town’s Carnegie Library and will see musicians Steve Averill (Radiators from Space, Trouble Pilgrims), Peter Jones (Paranoid Visions, Molly Vulpyne Band), Bitzy (The Strougers, Lee Harveys, Deviators), Tara MacLean in conversation.
Book publishers Garry O’Neill and Niall McCormack of Hi-Tone Books and Niall McGuirk of Hope Collective, designer Joolz Denby; authors Paul Charles, Michael McCaughen and John Fleming will also speak along with as a host of fanzine editors over the years.
Dublin musicians and members of the music scene will also discuss their music memories, their writing process and their love of storytelling on a panel with Bitzy Fitzgerald of The Stougers, and The Lee Harveys, and author of Past the Point of Rescue, and Peter Jones of Paranoid Visions and author of Too Old To Die Young.
The day also features a one-on-one in-depth interviews with Paul Charles, booking agent for artists including Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, The Undertones, The Kinks, Van Morrison. He is joined by Canadian singer/songwriter and best-selling author, Tara MacLean, author of The Song of the Sparrow.
There will also be a panel entitled The Golden Age of Album Design with Joolz Denby, graphic designer for New Model Army, and Steve Averill, graphic designer for U2.
