Finally I am more or less happy with the conversion process to get the book up on line with Kindle, so in the next few days it should be up there in the ether!! This is the cover....drawn and designed by Esperanza, with help from Ximena Hidalgo.
The Spanish translation is well under way, and should be finished by mid-summer 2013.
This is the "back-cover" blurb:
The Spanish translation is well under way, and should be finished by mid-summer 2013.
This is the "back-cover" blurb:
Richard "Snakehips" Dudanski. Real name Richard Nother, b. 1952, Isle of Sheppey, U.K. Finishing a degree in zoology at Chelsea College in
1974, was invited by his friends to occupy the vacant drum stool of a fledgling rock band
rehearsing in the basement of a neighbouring squat…
This musical memoir traces the author’s life in the
corrugated-iron clad ruins of West London’s Squat Land during the two years
immediately prior to the Punk Explosion of ’76, playing with Joe Strummer’s
seminal garage band “The 101’ers” in the spit-and-sawdust music bars of the
capital. The thrills and spills of a crazy, quirky, hand-to-mouth existence
gives way to relative disenchantment with the oncoming of the Punk Uprising,
which for the author represents, at least partly, a sell-out to the Machiavellian Managers, as
much as the vaunted revolution in
British popular culture.
After an aborted venture with the iconoclastic “Tymon
Dogg and the Fools”, a stint with Lydon’s Metal Box period “Public Image
Limited”, a term with the Dantesque-dub of “Basement Five”, Dudanski’s tale
relates the ups and downs of his involvement in a myriad of bands forming part
of a fringe underground London scene through the late 70's and 80’s - “Bank of Dresden”, “The Raincoats”, “The
Tesco Bombers”, "Vincent Units", “The Decomposers”, and his eventual
move from London to Granada...
Esperanza Romero (b. 1956, Melilla, Spain). Aged 17
travelled independently from Malaga to London. A multi-faceted artist, studied Ceramics
(B.A.) at Camberwell School of Art (1977-81), and obtained an M.A. from the
Royal College of Art, London (1982-85). From
her own workshops first in London, later in Granada, has created a continually evolving body of work encompasing the disciplines of Ceramics, Painting,
Drawing and Engraving. Has exhibited in the galleries and museums of many
european countries, the U.S., China, India and Japan. Partner of Richard since
1974 and mother of their two children. Many
of the drawings included in this book were sketches made “in situ” 30 odd years
ago.
Richard & Esperanza, London 1977
