Dorothy Max Prior | Sex Is No Emergency

9781913689810

14/08/25

PB

432 pages

“A welcome sequel to 69 Exhibition Road… Alive with Prior’s hunger for art, people and ideas” Claire Biddles, The Wire.

Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed memoir 69 Exhibition Road.

In this new volume focussing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her life as it becomes ever more surreal and bemusing: days drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV; exploring London and New York City’s queer clubbing undergrounds;  weaving through the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence. Not to mention ballroom dancing, birthing babies, breastfeeding, and moving to Brighton to become a performance artist.

Wise, wry, and endlessly charming, this is a sparkling account of bold, adventurous creativity featuring cameos from Björk, Derek Jarman, Madonna, Ray Harryhausen and a host  of others.