BBC 5 Live Up All Night Record Club

The Record Club Each month Daniel Rachel and Dotun Adebayo reappraise 5 star rated classic albums with a special guest contributor  Episode 21 Eurythmics Be Yourself Tonight Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles Episode 20 Eurythmics Be Yourself Tonight The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rops The Jam All Mod Cons Episode 19 Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis Suzanne Vega Suzanne [...]

Swansea Fringe Festival

Join Tim Batcup (Classic Rock Magazine, Prog), as he discusses the newest Walls Come Tumbling Down  with the author.

Love Music, Hate Racism in conversation

Hugenot Museum , United Kingdom

Daniel will be talking about Walls Come Tumbling Down at the the Huguenot Museum in Rochester High Street  

Rock Against Racism Victoria Park 40th Anniversary

To celebrate Black History Month 2018 and with recent political events significantly shaping modern society, this inspiring event will give you an opportunity to listen to renowned authors Travis Elborough and Daniel Rachel as they share the stories of courage and conviction of thousands of Londoners who took part in the 1978 Rock Against Racism [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night Record Club

The Record Club Each month Daniel Rachel and Dotun Adebayo reappraise 5 star rated classic albums with a special guest contributor Episode 22 Aretha Franklin Lady Soul The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society    Episode 21 Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles Eurythmics Be Yourself Tonight Episode 20 The Jam All Mod Cons Clash Give ‘Em Enough [...]

BBC 5 Live Up All Night Record Club

The Record Club Each month The Record Club reappraises 5 star rated classic albums with special guest contributor Daniel Rachel   Episode 23 The Beatles White Album Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks Episode 22 Aretha Franklin Lady Soul The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society Episode 21 Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles Eurythmics [...]

ROCK AND ROLL BOOK CLUB: RIPPED AND TORN / WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN

ROCK AND ROLL BOOK CLUB: RIPPED AND TORN/WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN Tony Drayton- Ripped And Torn by Tony Drayton. Walls Come Tumbling Down by Daniel Rachelin conversation with Tony Gleed and Julie Hamill with Radio Generation LIVE! LONDON: Dublin Castle WED 6TH FEB, 2019 7:15pm Tony Drayton – Ripped and Torn: 1976 – 79 The [...]

Ranking Roger pre-publication book launch

London Intl Ska Festival is delighted to present… Ranking Roger’s I Just Can’t Stop It pre-publication book launch ft. a talk, signing and Q&A with author Daniel Rachel. Doors 7pm. Talk starts at 8pm sharp. This is the first place you will be able to get your hands on a copy of Ranking Roger’s autobiography! FREE [...]

Stoke Newington Literary Festival DJ set

I will be DJ-ing a 2 Tone realted set in honour of Ranking Roger   One of the best book bashes in the UK – The Quietus A literary festival that’s thrown its pretensions in a skip – Londonist The coolest literary festival of the summer – Authonomy Since 2010, we’ve been celebrating the area’s radical and literary [...]

A celebration of Ranking Roger & The Beat

A celebration of Ranking Roger and the music of The Beat Hosted by Rhoda Dakar (Bodysnatchers/The Specials) with special guests Ranking Junior + Daniel Rachel (author) Wednesday, 26th June 2019 Rough Trade West Doors 5:30pm On-stage 6:00pm Signing after show ENTRY WITH PURCHASE I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in the Beat (Paperback) Ranking Roger [...]

A celebration of Ranking Roger & The Beat

A celebration of Ranking Roger and the music of The Beat with special guests Ranking Junior + Daniel Rachel (author) Wednesday, 3rd July 2019 Rough Trade Bristol Doors 6:30pm On-stage 7:30pm Signing after show ENTRY WITH PURCHASE I Just Can't Stop It Ranking Roger BUY TICKET / BOOK £60.00 BUY TICKET / BOOK £14.99 Share this [...]

The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk

Daniel will be in conversation with Sean Moncrieff at 12.30pm From the bizarre to the intellectual, this multi-award-winning show is the most eclectic on Irish radio. Covering politics, history, popular culture, sex, farming, parenting, religion, psychology, international news, science, philosophy and pretty much everything else, Moncrieff will make you think and laugh - and throw [...]

PUBLICATION DATE – Don’t Look Back In Anger: The Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia

Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia by Daniel Rachel The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the ‘Swinging Sixties’ had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It [...]

Don’t Look Back In Anger: the rise & fall of Cool Britannia publiction

'God, this book made me miss the Nineties...I tore through it, savouring every high and low point of this hazy, hard-to-define epoch.' EVENING STANDARD A who’s who of the 90s – SHAUN KEAVENY, BBC 6 MUSIC A rollicking read....a tale of hedonism and opportunism, of great hope and dashed expectations. - MAIL ON SUNDAY A [...]

Word In Your Ear presents the Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia

WIYE presents the Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia 11 September 2019 at 19:00 The Islington The Islington - 1 Tolpuddle St - London Borough of Islington N1 0XT  Daniel will be talking to David Hepworth and Mark Ellen About Why do people call this London’s best night out? It’s a unique opportunity to hear [...]

BBC 6 Music Shuan Keaveny

Ep 186 - Author Daniel Rachel joins Shaun Shaun is making some noise in between songs so the emergency tape doesn’t kick in. Plus, author Daniel Rachel joins to chat about his new book Don’t Look Back in Anger Book. Shaun give another caller a chance to tell their brilliantly daft Claim to Fame on [...]

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week

Tom Sutcliffe will present the programme which will look broadly at culture in a political context: the ways in which Brit Pop, football and YBA art related to 90s politics. Daniel will be joined by conductor Charles Hazlewood discussing minimalism and its 20th-century political context. BBC Radio 4 Start the Week Weekly discussion programme, setting [...]

BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Daniel in conversation with Adrian Chiles on the Emma Barnett Show. Features big-name interviews, original journalism and news-making stories

Cheltenham Literary Festival with Alwyn Turner

Don't Look Back In Anger Quickfind L063 Sat 5 Oct 2019 8:15pm - 9:15pm The Inkpot £8 plus booking fee* This event goes on sale to Members on Wed 28 Aug at 10:00am. Public booking opens on Wed 04 Sep at 10:00am Details Relive the epic highs and crashing lows of one of the most eventful periods in British [...]

One Track Minds

OneTrackMinds returns this autumn with another vibrant selection of writers, thinkers and musicians, each presenting a thoughtprovoking story about that one song that changed their life, and is about to leave a lasting impact on yours. 12th October Daniel Rachel - Author Julian Knox - Poet Freya Mallard - Comedian Polly Bennett - Movement Director/Choreographer Rob Watt - Theatre Director Ingrid [...]