Dave Haslam & Jeff Young - Adventure Everywhere: Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife

To mark the publication of "Adventure Everywhere", Dave Haslam’s short format book about Pablo Picasso’s Paris nightlife, the former Haceinda DJ and Jeff Young (author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay) will be discussing the phantoms and inspirations of cities; memories; music; the cultural value of late night venues; Picasso, and punk; Eric’s and the Hacienda; and the links between art and life after dark.

Dave Haslam is a former DJ at the Hacienda in Manchester, and the author of several full-length and short format books. His DJ-ing has taken him to the likes of Berlin, Lima, New York, and Paris. His ‘memoir "Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor" (2018) was proclaimed Book of the Year by Gilles Peterson. His current project is a series of short format books; subjects have included Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, and the Angry Brigade. "Adventure Everywhere" is the seventh book in the series.

Jeff Young’s book "Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay" was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Prize. His next book has been announced - "Wild Twin", which explores the author’s early adulthood hitch-hiking to Paris in the 1970s. Described by his publishers as an "Orwellian travel book…shot through with Jeff’s extraordinary, almost hallucinogenic vision".