Our good friend, the author Richard King returns to Friendly Records to discuss his celebrated new book Brittle with Relics: A history of Wales 1962 - 1997. In conversation with Richard will be Friendly's own barman, shopkeeper & Friendly right hand man Benny for some pint in hand musings.

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. A driven personal reflection opens out to explore Tryweryn, Aberfan, Cymdeithas, the Miners’ Strike, Meibion Glyndŵr, Language, Deindustrialisation, Culture, Second Homes, Sustainability & Devolution.

Richard is the author of Original Rockers, a meditation on music and the hallowed space of a record shop; drawing on his time working in Bristol’s own Revolver as a point of departure. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and was a Rough Trade, The Times & Uncut Book of the Year. He has also published How Soon Is Now?, a landmark survey on many of the record labels vital to the independent music industry. In 2020 he published The Lark Ascending, a radical new history of Britain’s natural landscapes and the musical movements they have inspired; it was a Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize. He was born into a bilingual family in South Wales and for the last twenty years has lived in the rural county of Powys, Mid Wales.

Thursday 7th April
Doors: 7:30
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against Brittle with Relics book purchase)

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