Further Events for 2025

 

I'm busier with events this year than I have been since the end of COVID. Fortunately I'm not working on a book at the moment.

Mansion of Gloom will be available to buy at all of them.

AUGUST

Sunday 10 An Alien in London William Burroughs walk for the Sohemian Society. With Bill Redwood and Jim Pennington.
Some tickets still available here. Starts outside Westminster Reference Library WC2H 7HP

Sunday 31 Talk (around 4pm) on Netherwood guesthouse and Aleister Crowley at The Mint House Pevensey, East Sussex. Information here.

SEPTEMBER

Decadent London walk for the Sohemian Society. I'VE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THIS UNTIL NEXT SPRING

OCTOBER

Thursday 9   Decadent London online talk for the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Unnatural History. Hosted by Edward Parnell.

Tuesday 14 October Lecture for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Subject probably Horror on the London Underground. To be held in London, at the Horse Hospital.  RIP Roger Burton.

Thursday 30   Talk about the life and art of James Abbot McNeill Whistler for the Salon for the City. London Horse Hospital.

DECEMBER

Sunday 7 Goth Weekend Talk about Mansion of Gloom with Dr Emma Liggins at Guy's Hospital Chapel.

Thursday 11   A coffee house related talk for the London borough of Islington.

Many of the above are subject to confirmation so please check beforehand.

July 2025

 

There's a cheaper copy of Mansion of Gloom for sale on eBay at the moment. See here.

At a recent screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Electric Palace in Hastings the film's producer Mark Forstater took part in a Q&A in which he said that he is currently putting together a film set in Hastings with an Aleister Crowley theme (something to do with AC's supposed 'curse' on the town). Watch this space. 

I'm enjoying the music of London-based musician, composer and producer DoomCannon at the moment - the Renaissance album draws inspiration from early 1970s fusion and spiritual jazz. Also two reissued albums by Joe Henderson Power to the People and Multiple.

Two gigs I was going to have been postponed Throwing Muses at the White Rock and Lost Crowns in Brighton (I suspect this gig will never happen). Next up is The Warlocks at The Piper in St Leonards, see here and here.

The next event I'm involved in is a walk for the Sohemian Society about William Burroughs' time in London in the early 1970s in the company of Bill Redwood and Jim Pennington. Half the tickets have already sold (it was first advertised yesterday) so may be time to get a ticket now to avoid disappointment.

Tickets here. Sunday 12 August starting at 2.30 outside Westminster Reference Library in St Martin's Street WC2. We'll finish outside the block in Bury Street where he lived and entertained friends such as Brion Gysin.  

More events on the way.