[TypicalGirls] Nina Antonia Interview...
Bess Korey
besskorey at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 01:53:22 EDT 2007
Ok, so here's some shameless self-promotion. I apologize in advance for it,
but I do think that some people in this group may be interested in what I am
promoting, otherwise I wouldn't mention it here.
An interview I did with Nina Antonia, has recently been posted on
venuszine.com. Antonia is a pioneering female music journalist from
the U.K., and
was the first person ever to write biographies about both the New York
Dollsand Johnny
Thunders. The interview serves as an overview of her career as a music
writer, and touches on the challenges she has faced over the years as a
female trying to make her way in what was (and to an extent, still
is) considered the boys' club of rock journalism. It also focuses quite
a bit on her most recent book,* The Prettiest Star-Whatever Happened To
Brett Smiley?* The book is both a memoir of her life and a biography
of musician Brett Smiley. Antonia's tale of how her Glam Rock heroes
inspired her writing and her life, is interwoven with the story of how
Smiley should have been a Glam legend like David Bowie and Marc Bolan, but
fate got in the way and stopped it from happening for him. He recorded a
fantastic album in 1974 which remained unreleased until 2003. Antonia helped
to make the album's release happen, and that is how their lives went from
paralleling each others to intersecting.
If you would like to see my Antonia interview, go here:
*http://venuszine.com/stories/arts_reads/3901*<http://venuszine.com/stories/arts_reads/3901>
Feedback on my writing is much loved and appreciated!
I am also working on an article about Cheap Perfume, who were one of the
first all-female Punk bands to play at CBGB back in the '70s, and who have
recently reunited, have begun playing shows again, and are recording new
material. I will be sure to post more information about that article once it
is published. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Bess Korey
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