Aye Write festival
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Daniel Rachel & Dave Randal - Mixing Pop and Politics 17th Mar 2017 • 6:00PM - 7:00PM • Mitchell Library These books both explore how musicians have tried to change the world with the political power of music. Musicians have often wanted to change the world – many have believed [...]
Trinity Academy, Edinburgh
Daniel Rachel - Conversations with Great British Songwriters Daniel Rachel is the author of 'Isle of Noises' (Guardian and NME Book of the Year (2013)). Daniel's book documents his conversations with over twenty British songwriters from Ray Davies to Paul Weller, from Jimmy Page to Robin Gibb, from Sting to Chris Difford & Glenn Tillbrook [...]
BBC Radio 5 'The Record Club'
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums with Richard Foster and special guest contributor Daniel Rachel Episode 2: James Brown 'Live At the Apollo' (1962) REM 'Automatic For The People' Episode 1: The Beatles 'Revolver' The Human League 'Dare'
The Art of Protest: Goldsmiths College
A free one-day symposium to explore how art and music has supported and been inspired by struggles for equality – particularly around race – over the past 40 years. It will discuss how the arts have also been used to remember, learn from and reignite struggles of the past. We will focus specifically on two [...]
FT Oxford Literary Festival with Pauline Black and Clare Short
Walls Come Tumbling Down – The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge Sunday 26 March 2017 4:00pm 1 Hour St John’s: Auditorium Venue £12.50 Ticket price Musician-turned-author Daniel Rachel discusses his book about the coming together of pop music and politics in the 1970s and 1980s with the Labour politician Clare [...]
The Collaboration Session with Nick Soulsby and Daniel Rachel
Waterstones Camden Town are pleased to announce the first in an exciting new series of events: "The Sessions". Each month we will be inviting 2 authors to talk music, books, and the vital role both have in today's and yesterday's cultures - with each "Session" focused on a central discussion topic, such as Authenticity, Gender, [...]
Clash Night '77
On the 40th anniversary of the 1977 release of The Clash, the band’s debut album, 'Clash Night '77 is a Philosophy Football night out both to remember all the anger for change The Clash helped ignite back in ’77, together with a celebration of the Clash's culture of resistance which continues, alive and kicking, today. How? Side one [...]
Laugharne Festival with Pauline Black
THE LAUGHARNE WEEKEND 2017 APRIL 7-9 The tenth anniversary iteration of The Laugharne Weekend takes place on the weekend of April 7-9th (one week before Easter). Weekend tickets, priced at £90 are sold out. Sorry! Check our Facebook page for news of any returns. The line-up is shaping up very nicely, Check the Line-Up page for the [...]
BBC Radio 5 'The Record Club'
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums with Richard Foster and special guest contributor Daniel Rachel Episode 3: Bruce Springsteen The River The Specials Specials Episode 2: James Brown 'Live At the Apollo' (1962) REM 'Automatic For The People' Episode 1: The Beatles 'Revolver' The Human [...]
Portobello Live 2017
Rock Against Racism panel event 3pm - Chris Salewicz introduces Daniel with other guests including Don Letts and Glen Matlock 4pm - Daniel presents Rock Against Racism Mick Jones (the Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) introduces festival highlights: It’s back! For the third year running, Portobello Live! returns to West London with its winning formula of [...]
Lewes Labour Club
Does Music Have ther Power to Change Politics? With additional guest local speakers, Stevie Freeman, Union Music Store and local concert promoter https://unionmusicstore.com And Steve Franklin who is a director of the Starfish music project in Lewes see http://www.starfishlewes.co.uk
Radio BBC Surrey and Sussex interview
Daniel will be in conversation with Allison Ferns ahead of this evenings 'in conversation' with June Miles Kingston at Waterstones Brighton. part of the brighton Festival / City Reads Afternoon with Allison Ferns Spend your afternoon in the company of Allison with great music and good conversation. On demand BBC SURREY & BBC SUSSEX [...]
Brighton Festival with June Miles Kingston
DESCRIPTION We were trying to change the world in our tiny way by stopping the rise of fascism amongst youth with the power of music. Red Saunders, founder of Rock Against Racism Join writer and musician Daniel Rachel to celebrate the paperback release of Walls Come Tumbling Down. His book charts the extraordinary and pivotal [...]
West End Lane Books with Travis Elborough
To launch paperback of Walls Come Tumbling Down...More details to follow
Radio Woking Walls Come Tumbling Down 2 hour special
Fiery Bird Show featuring Daniel Rachel Very happy to announce that my guest on 25 May Fiery Bird Show on Radio Woking is Daniel Rachel - author of 'Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Music & Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2Tone and Red Wedge'. Daniel will be joining me to talk about his book [...]
BBC 5 Live The Record Club
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums with Richard Foster and special guest contributor Daniel Rachel Episode 4: Michael Jackson Off The Wall Led Zeppelin II Episode 3: Bruce Springsteen The River The Specials Specials Episode 2: James Brown 'Live At the Apollo' (1962) REM 'Automatic For The People' Episode 1: The Beatles 'Revolver' The Human [...]
BBC Radio 5 Live Fairport Convention special
An exclusive interview with Fairport Convention original member Simon Nicholl. Simon will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Liege and Lief with an special 30 minute in conversation with Daniel Rachel
Norfolk & Norwich Festival 5×15: Revolutions
EVENT Revolutions: 5x15 SATURDAY 27 MAY ADNAMS SPIEGELTENT, CHAPELFIELD GARDENS 1 - 2.40PM (INC. INTERVAL) £8 / £80 WEEKEND TICKET A one-stop guide to our world in transition. Five renowned speakers, no script, and 15 minutes each to blow your mind. Featuring historian and novelist Rebecca Stott on breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult, [...]
Merthyr Rising Festival
Music and Politics. Do they mix? Of course they do. Political Talks, Debates and Ideas with Francesca Martinez | Raoul Martinez | John McDonnell | Craig Murray | Lindsay German | Roger Mckenzie (Unison) | Ross Ashcroft| Peter Stefanovic | Rob Griffiths | Steve Keen | Daniel Rachel | Dave Randell Pretty Vicious | Stereo [...]
Stourbridge Literary Festival
We were trying to change the world in our tiny way by stopping the rise of fascism amongst youth with the power of music. Red Saunders, founder of Rock Against Racism Join writer and musician Daniel Rachel to celebrate the paperback release of Walls Come Tumbling Down. His book charts the extraordinary and pivotal period [...]
Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Protest Music: Daniel Rachel. In conversation with Anita Sethi £6. Time – 18:00, Saturday. Venue – Library Gallery Winner of this year’s Penderyn Music Writing Prize, Daniel discusses the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in British history in his fascinating book [...]
Camberley International Festival
The Bear 12:30 – 11pm (Free Events) New for 2017 – Literature: The C.I.F. is incredibly lucky to have John Williams, Cardiff novelist and founder of the Laugharne Weekend in Wales, to curate this new literature section of the festival. John will be interviewing and hosting Q&A sessions with these fabulous authors: 1pm Daniel Rachel [...]
Camberley Internation Festival with James Brown
Former NME and loaded journalist talking about his book on 5-A Side football ‘Above Head Height’ with Daniel Rachel 2pm 1pm Daniel Rachel Daniel Rachel’s book ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down’ is an exhaustive account of the Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge movements. In April it won the Penderyn Music Book Prize. Ex NME [...]