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Live at the Safari Club

July 12, 2017, by No comments yet

Happy to say our book is finally out there in the world! It made its first appearance at RevFest 30 in Riverside. Confirmed tour/signing dates below. Thank you to everyone who contributed along the way. Email me if you have questions or would like to interview us:
shawna dot kenney at gmail dot com

August 26th
It’s Not Dead Festival
Art’s Not Dead/Punks Well Read exhibit
Glen Helen Ampitheater
2575 Glen Helen Parkway
San Bernadino, CA
Noon until 10 pm

Tuesday September 5th
Skylight Books
with Mike Gitter & XXX Fanzine
1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
323.660.1175
7:30 pm

Thursday September 14th
DC Public Library
Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) branch
1630 7th St NW
Washington, DC
7 pm

Saturday September 16th
Atomic Books
3620 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21211
410.662.4444
7 pm – 9 pm

Monday September 18th
Old Books on Front Street
249 N. Front Street
Wilmington, NC
910.762.6657
7 pm

Safari Club book

February 22, 2017, by No comments yet

This book has been in the works for 6 years. Six years! My husband and I have done over 100 interviews and people have donated tons of never-published photos, flyers and ephemera to make this a truly collective oral and visual history. What took us so long? Well, life… we both work full time, also had both of our computers stolen a few years ago (with only some of our original material backed up), also doing an oral history is a SHIT TON of work (transcribing and transcribing, editing, and tracking people down backstage and in back alleys to get quotes).

We’re thrilled to announce the book has found a home in Rare Bird Books, an indie publisher with a love for music and beautiful products who understood our vision right away when we presented it. We are grateful to them and everyone who has contributed their time and expertise to making this happen. We hope this book will be a treasured document of time and place.

It’s available for pre-order here now. Note there is a collectible version in slipcase cover available, as well. Only 100 of those will be printed, so get on it!

my new punk book

May 30, 2011, by 2 comments

Just back from New York AGAIN (yes, that’s twice in one month) as spectator/researcher, rather than performer, this time. My husband and I went to the Black and Blue Bowl to see many of our favorite New York hardcore bands but also to interview as many people as possible for a book we’re working on about the Safari Club–a now crumbling, boarded-up building that once  hosted hardcore matinees (including many of the bands gracing the stage at BNB 2011). We talked to a lot of old friends and made some new ones. DC and New York have always had what I’ve seen as a very sisterly relationship, musically.

Here’s an impromptu anecdote from Lars Frederiksen, who was at the show and game to share a memory. Thanks, Lars!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5JPgirKC8&w=425&h=340]

Interview excerpts will trickle into the Live at the Safari Club website over the next year or so. In the meantime, I’ve got a lot of transcribing to do!