Ali Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.alismith.com/
https://www.blackstoneindie.com/the-ballad-of-speedball-baby-gkno.html#541=2790081
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/05/ali-smiths-90s-new-york-punk-scene-in-pictures
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith―coming of age in ’90s New York―who commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply.
As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to.
She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world―from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene full of addiction, violence, and misogyny―all while keeping her sharp wit and dark humor intact.
Rimmed with heavy black eyeliner and smelling faintly of cheap booze, The Ballad of Speedball Baby is a pulse-quickening, unpredictable ride through the ’90s music scene―alternately terrifying, hilarious, and painfully evocative―as well as a love letter to the power of female solidarity.
Paul Chastain - The Small Square, Choo Choo Train, The Springfields, Velvet Crush etc
Derek Philpott - Dear Catherine Wheel
Cruella de Ville - Philomena Muinzer
The Newtown Neurotics - Steve Drewett
Mike Baggetta - mssv
David Bowie - Jérôme Soligny
Crisis & Naevus - Lloyd James
Chris Matthews - Shudder To Think & Quiz Show
Jill Smith
The Danse Society - Paul Nash
Jim Cregan - Family, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Rod Stewart
Jean Caffeine - Pulsallama
Little Nemo - Nicolas Dufaure & Ronan Le Sergent
Michael Blair - Tom Waites, Elvis Costello, The Replacements, Soul Asylum, Victoria Williams
Anthony Dolphin - Santa Sprees
Jacqueline Bradley - The Hellfire Club, Sophisticated Boom Boom & His Latest Flame
Prince Stash - Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
John Douglas - The Trash Can Sinatras
Tom Hagler - Bowie At The BBC - book
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