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COLD LIPS
by Kirsty Allison
Cold Lips began as a zine with parties internationally and now makes books and music releases. Founded by writer Kirsty Allison, her debut novel, PSYCHOMACHIA is out now. She is editor of Ambit, est. 1959, and performs as Vagrant Lovers with the musician, filmmaker and partner Cold Lips' co-director Gil De Ray.www.coldlips.co.ukwww.kirstyallison.comIRVINE WELSH “the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced”TIME OUT: "Proving bookish folk are the coolest folk" Dr John Cooper Clarke: "Cold Lips is artistic and fabulous"
Episodes
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Tarek Atoui opens Frieze Week
❤️ Beirut Tarek Atoui (b. 1980, Beirut, Lebanon) is a sound artist based in Paris. He opens Frieze week in London today with a legendary return to the Hyundai Commission in the Tate Turbine Hall. It took Atoui 7 months of coding to create the live electronic processing of the mechanics which,...
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Unchained poetry-film
Howdy, readers. Watchers. Listeners, Sunday. Monday. The days of the week, the months of the seasons, the cosmic words of the wild. All is set in the Northern hemisphere, as winter earth protects itself from the barking nights of snowfall. Slowly, catching breath, to speed up action, for Spring…
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From the desk of Tim Burton-esque
Dear Readers, I got what I needed Going for a Burton (that’s an English RAF term from WWII, like we’re going off to die). I’m at the press conference for the biggest show the Design Museum has ever hosted, with 32,000 tickets sold in advance. Much as I'm falling out of love with absorbing myself…
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Tramps and winners, Ambit 249, SET Peckham with Kirsty Allison
The euthanasia party of Ambit. Celebrating winners of the Annual Ambit Competition for Poems, Stories & Art. Stuart McPherson (poems, judged by Rebecca Tamás), Paul Currion (stories, judge by Jenni Fagan) and Robert Gillespie (art, judged by Danielle de Picciotto). Established in 1959, the board...
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High Seas
More from us on https://vagrantlovers.bandcamp.com To hear more, visit kirstyallison.substack.com
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Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade, and my life as a f**king magazine
Dear ones, My life is a f**king magazine. Pages of projects, my life, twixting and twaining. I’ve grown up in them. You are your experience, and in the same way that you are what you sleep with, you become what you do, I guess. I wasn’t sure whether to hammer your inboxes daily with…
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Ambit x Savage Pencil mixtape from contributors, first played on Soho Radio's Morning Glory show
1. JASON ATOMIC: ULTIMATE SPINACH, “(BALLAD OF) THE HIP DEATH GODDESS” 2. GIL DE RAY ; PAUL WIBIER “SATAN” 3. TONY HERRINGTON: GUN CLUB, “MOTHER EARTH” 4. HOLLY AMBER, H P LOVERAFT, “MOBIUS TRIP” 5. SAVAGE PENCIL: BLUE OYSTER CULT, “TRANSMANIACON MC” 6. KIRSTY ALLISON: JIM CARROLL, “PEOPLE WHO...
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Ambit x Savage Pencil live on Soho Radio
Special edition on the second ever Ambit Pop, guest edited by punk art legend, Savage Pencil, best known from his artwork for the most extreme late 20th century musicians such as Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Mudhoney, Sunn O))) and many more. Special guests include Barbara Frost, who…
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Jón Sæmundur Auðarson of Dead Skeletons with his paintings at Icelandic Embassy
Jón Sæmundur Auðarson of Dead Skeletons with his paintings at Icelandic Embassy talks about the impending volcano explosions, HIV, Hep C, strong tea with Kirsty Allison. There is a film version of this online made by Gil De Ray Insta @coldlips_ and Cold Lips website and Gil De Ray and Cold Lips...
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Ambit Radio with Anthony Anaxagorou, and a spectrum of Queer poetry, plus music
Editor Kirsty Allison talks digital culture with Anthony Anaxagorou and we drop the name of his highly anticipated new collection on Granta Books. Ambit hang in the rainbow realm celebrating the queer collection of the year with Queering the Green (Belfast Lifeboat) editor Paul Maddern and recent...
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Martin Green x Kirsty Allison
In the second issue of Cold Lips, the author and filmmaker Graham Bendel wrote about the 90s clubs that got indie kids away from the acid house. Without DJ Martin Green’s Smashing, would there be Britpop? The club's a component of the time where my novel’s set. I caught up with the DJ legend…
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Martin Green x Kirsty Allison (Cold Lips)
Kirsty Allison speaks with legend DJ Martin Green about the 90s. Without Martin Green, would there be Britpop? His weekly club night Smashing, defined an era in underground culture, and was the coolest club of the 90s. To hear more, visit kirstyallison.substack.com
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Ambit Radio on Soho Radio with Prize-winners and Chris McCabe
🧡🎃⚡️the nights are drawing in…and the eve of Halloween, Ambit's editor, Kirsty Allison is hanging in graveyards with poets and smelling the blood of prize-winners in the studio 🎃🎃🩸 the Ambit All Stars at the turn of Samhain - cash monnaie winners of the Annual Ambit Competitions themed on...
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Psychomachia - stolen property
Today - I’ve recorded my unscholarly translation of Prudentius’s Psychomachia for you. Originally written in Latin in the fifth century, I was thrown out of Latin for making up stories about Orphelia in the Underworld, so it’s hardly scholarly. But Praise Be to the miracle of Google Translate, a...
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Ambit Radio x Soho Radio with Briony Bax, The Last Poets' Abiodun Oyewole and Kirsty Allison
Ambit magazine, est. 1959, bids adieu to Briony Bax, editor from 2013-2021, who speaks about her Lament collection about mental health (Rough Trade Books), with music from Pete Astor's The Attendant, Malik Ameer Crumpler's new Brazilian collaboration, presented by author, poet, and incoming…
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Ambit Radio x Soho Radio with Kim Addonizio and commended poets
First broadcast with Soho Radio NYC and Culture, hear poet heroine, iconic essayist, and mighty novelist Kim Addonizio talk about the gender politics in literature with Kirsty Allison 🔵🔵🔵 also featured: the commended poets that Addonizio selected for the notorious Annual Ambit Poems…
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Ambit Radio x Soho Radio with Michael Foreman, Alan Kitching, Ken Cox, Stephen Barrett, & Michael Salu
Michael Foreman - the art director of Ambit for 50 years, with legendary typesetter Alan Kitching, who came in with Derek Birdsall's Omnific Studios - illustrator and jazzman, Ken Cox, our new designer Stephen Barrett with Kirsty Allison, and curator and author, David Brittain, and an in depth...
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Ambit Radio x Soho Radio with Lias Saoudi, Fat White Family, Jenni Fagan, Rob Doyle & more
Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family discusses the ‘Johnson method’ alongside the theme of Futility! Fear! Faith! with author of the cult worldtrip-inside-your-soul book, Threshold, Rob Doyle, and Jenni Fagan, who’s recent novel, Luckenbooth frames gothic Victoriana into Edinburgh tenements over 9...
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GOTH SHOP X COLD LIPS with Derek Ridgers
Some people earn the tag of legend - and for five decades Derek Ridgers, the London-based photographer has captured the Dark Carnival of the British underworld in our most radical club nights, from Blitz and Skin Two through to today’s Wraith Club. Growing up in the 60s, and making his name...
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Letter from Berlin
I’m working on a piece, based on a scrunched up old lady in a mask, who gets mown down by a cyclist. She’s the last old lady in Mitte, Berlin, after Apple smash down the old folks home to build their fourth reich. Does it need more? Today, I’m sharing a recording with the Irish author, Rob Doyle,...
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Rob Doyle x Kirsty Allison, Berlin
Recorded September 2020, on a balcony in the east, looking down towards the spree river with Berghain between. I’m sitting with Rob Doyle, the author of my favourite book so far this year, Threshold. It's published in the UK and the US by Bloomsbury, so he takes throne as a leader in a new school...
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Modern Poetry
They are here. Forward! 200 first editions. Signed and numbered. Poetry since 007. Foreword by Malik Ameer Crumpler. “At risk of being accused of damning her with faint praise I’d contend that Kirsty Allison is the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced.” Irvine Welsh “Kirsty Allison’s...
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Danielle De Picciotto x Kirsty Allison
Recorded February 2020, at Studio 65 in Wedding, Berlin, when Cold Lips released Martyn Goodacre's Whos F****n Planet book to accompany his exhibition as Das Gift Released in anticipation of Danielle De Picciotto's GESAMTKUNSTWERK show at Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin. 12 September > 03 October…
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LORD OF THE DANCE: MEHMET SANDER
Have you heard this? Don’t be scared - it’s just a few trophy bruises. Mehmet Sander is radical, revolutionary, extreme and 100% punk - here we talk about his forthcoming collaborations - and past. Training on stages full of Rauschenberg and Warhol - bunking dance school for the Bat Cave and...
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Mehmet Sander with Kirsty Allison
Kirsty Allison took part in Mehmet Sander's life changing workshop at the Chisenhale Dance Space. His world-class 'action architecture' defies EVERYTHING in contemporary dance. Punk, hardcore, radical, revolutionary. https://coldlips.co.uk/2018/07/05/mehmet-sander-dance-company/...
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Dave Randall x Cold Lips
Dave Randall is a brilliant mind. This interview was recorded in St Giles churchyard in Camberwell, London, 3 July 2020. Dave Randall is the author of Sound System – The Political Power of Music (Pluto Press 2017) and guitarist, producer and composer. His own critically acclaimed albums released...
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Dave Randall with Kirsty Allison
This interview was recorded in St Giles churchyard in Camberwell, London, 3 July 2020. Dave Randall is the author of Sound System – The Political Power of Music (Pluto Press 2017) and guitarist, producer and composer. His own critically acclaimed albums released under the name Slovo feature...
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Martyn Goodacre x Kirsty Allison
Hey - this is subscriber’s preview of an hour conversation with Martyn Goodacre - he’s a Quiet legend. More short fiction from me coming soon. I’m writing about jackals of Baalbek, they’re hungry to lose their fleas. You probably know Martyn Goodacre’s photographs - THAT photo of Kurt Cobain…
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Martyn Goodacre with Kirsty Allison, Cold Lips
Photographer, Martyn Goodacre is perhaps best known for his iconic shots of Kurt Cobain. But in his first book publication, WHOS F****N PLANET, limited to 100 editions, with a belly band lino cut by Kirsty Allison (available on www.coldlips.co.uk), he tells the story of free land before the...
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Conversations with Dr John Cooper Clarke, Mark Reeder and a film I've made for Gil De Ray
More short fiction coming soon, but in the meantime: Dr John Cooper Clarke and Kirsty Allison I’m very pleased to share this insightful recording with the good Doctor, and a full story over on Cold Lips, the magazine that came as a result of the Sylvia Plath Fan Club night enabled by the late...
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Mark Reeder with Kirsty Allison
Berlin legend, Mark Reeder - moved from working class Manchester in the late 70s, to rep Factory Records, and put on illegal punk gigs in East Berlin, which led to him being recruited as a GDR producer, after being grassed by Stasi friends. In the seminal film, B-Movie - he explores the 80s in...
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Dr John Cooper Clarke with Kirsty Allison
Recorded on the rooftop of The Union Club in London's Soho, accompanied by martinis, before a Polaroid session, which adorned the second edition of Cold Lips, prior to headlining the legendary launch party at Hoxton's Courtyard Theatre in 2016, the mighty Dr John Cooper Clarke raps with Cold…
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TRICKY with Cold Lips' editor Kirsty Allison
TRICKY IS THE OLD SCHOOL OVERLORD OF BRITISH HIP-HOP - his new book Hell Is Around The Corner is out now - and it is splendid. It's rare to meet iconoclasts on the level of Tricky - born Adrian Thaws - mother dying of suicide/epilepsy at 4 - and it’s an honour to learn and be infected by people...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Cold Lips began as a zine with parties internationally and now makes books and music releases. Founded by writer Kirsty Allison, her debut novel, PSYCHOMACHIA is out now. She is editor of Ambit, est. 1959, and performs as Vagrant Lovers with the musician, filmmaker and partner Cold Lips' co-director Gil De Ray.www.coldlips.co.ukwww.kirstyallison.comIRVINE WELSH “the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced”TIME OUT: "Proving bookish folk are the coolest folk" Dr John Cooper Clarke: "Cold Lips is artistic and fabulous"
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