2011 Little Punk Thing

2011 Little Punk Thing

2011

With the addition of new bassist Jo Violet, and the release of the 'Love Will Kill You' EP, gigs came in thick and fast for the 2011 Little Punk Tour.

  • Sat 4th June - Leeds Cockpit
  • Mon 6th June - Norwich Marquee
  • Fri 10th June - Leipzig Germany - WGT festival 20th anniversary - headlining the Felsenkeller
  • Sat 16th July - Glasgow Classic Grand
  • Fri 22nd July - Waregem Belgium ShadowPlay Festival
  • Sun 24th July - York DV8 Festival - Headlining
Two new blog interviews / reviews about the launch of The Palace of Curiosities – and how long it's taken to get here. First up: Tim Diggles - Legend – Rosie Garland (aka Rosie Lugosi) ‘What has always amazed me is that you have so many different aspects to your work. You write in your name Rosie Garland; you write and perform as your alter-ego Rosie Lugosi; you are the lead singer of The March Violets; you are a Goth icon; a legend in the world of burlesque; star of Woman’s Hour and women’s magazines; are there any other facets we…
Suzi Feay has given 'The Palace of Curiosities' an amazing review on the Emerald Steet blog! WOMEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Two events make this weekend a goodie: International Women's Day and the launch of the inaugural Folio Prize Fiction Festival. There are events celebrating both occasions all weekend but tomorrow, the two overlap at On Reading Women, a discussion on literary heroines with authors Tessa Hadley and Frances Wilson, and literary critic Suzi Feay. There are still tickets left. Can't make it? Don't worry; Suzi has shared her favourite up-and-coming female fiction writers with us... THE PALACE OF CURIOSITIES…
#mywritingprocess – Blog Tour I was asked to participate in this blog tour by wonderful wordsmith Steph Pike Its purpose is to share current activities, link writers to their wider community and to spend a little time considering our latest projects - which could be either to tantalize readers or to give me the opportunity to chew over what exactly I'm doing. Either way, we get four questions to structure the post around: 1) What am I working on? I grew up thinking there was something wrong with me, not helped by being surrounded by folk who encouraged that belief.…
Authors Writing on Books The Palace of Curiosities – reviewed by Max Scratchmann Much as I want to like all of these books, there are, I'm afraid, a lot of fairly dull bodice-rippers and penny-dreadfuls lurking beneath the stunning cover art on the slew of mock-Victorian novels currently on the market, so it was with great joy that I discovered Rosie Garland's noir tale of life in a nineteenth-century freak show – The Palace of Curiosities. Enticed by the gothic delicacy of cover art and then seduced by the Angela Carter comparison from Jenny Murray on the flyleaf, I delved…