//With Peter York taking part in new literary/comedy festival Walthamstow Weekender at Walthamstow Trades Hall last Saturday. Photo: Mark Hart//

My new book Totally Wired: The Rise & Fall of the Music Press is out in the UK, Europe, Australia and other countries, so I have been active on the promotional front.

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Tags: Alexis Petridis, Bound Art Book Fair, Dave Haslam, David Hepworth, Laura Snapes, Manchester, Mark Ellen, Monocle Radio, Natty Kasambala, Peter York, Robert Bound, Robert Elms, Walthamstow Weekender, Write Idea Festival

//Gary Crowley outside 93 Bell Street, London NW1, the address once occupied by Sex Pistols scenester/designer Helen Wellington-Lloyd, her fellow Goldsmith’s student Malcolm McLaren and Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook//

Interspersed with a personal selection of songs, I talked to DJ Gary Crowley about the new Punk London: In The City 1975-78 map for the second hour of his Punk & New Wave show on Soho Radio yesterday.

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Tags: §Here Come The Warm Jets, Alice Cooper, Barnd New Cadillac, Brian Eno, Chiswick Records, Doremi Fasol Latido, Gary Crowley, Hawkwind, Helen Wellington-Lloyd, Killer, My Flamingo, Paul Cook, Peter York, Sex Pistols, Steve Jones, Teenage Head, The Snakes, The Subterraneans, Under My Wheels, Vince Taylor & The Playboys

This afternoon I’m the guest on DJ Gary Crowley’s show on London-based digital station Soho Radio.

I’ll be talking about Punk London: In The City 1975-78 – my map collaboration with Herb Lester Associates which is published on Friday (February 12) – and also playing a highly personal selection of songs in the spirit of the project where we aim to sidestep the cliches and show another side to the oft-told punk story.

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Tags: Billy Fury, Brian Eno, Do You Really Love Me Too, Dr Feelgood, Eastbourne Ladies, Flying Saucers Rock & Roll, Gary Crowley, Hawkwind, Herb lester Associates, Kevin Ayers, Kevin Coyne, Let It Rock, Lou Reed, New Musical Express, Nico, Rock & Roll Animal, Sex Pistols, Teenage Head, the 101'ers, The Rainbow, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Snakes

//Front cover, The Harder They Come soundtrack, Mango Records, 1973. Design: CCS//

Perry Henzell’s 1972 film The Harder They Come and its accompanying soundtrack cast quite a shadow across popular culture.

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Tags: BBC Radio 4, Chris Salewicz, Jimmy Cliff, Mango Records, Perry henzell, The Harder They Come

Tonight I am the guest again of the Broken Hearts DJs, this time on their monthly show at Strongroom Alive, the station which is part of the media complex based in the Strongroom recording studio in east London.

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Tags: Amber Butchart, Nisha Thirkell, Strongroom Alive

Tonight I’m on Broken Hearts’ Jazz FM show Peppermint Candy talking about Teddy Boy style.

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Tags: 1956, 1959, Broken Hearts, Caldonia, Carl Perkins, Charlie Feathers, Jazz FM, King, One Hand Loose, Peppermint Candy, Sun Records