A event held at St George's Bristol on Tuesday 1st October. The event starts at 19:30.
Tickets available here: https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/neneh-cherry-a-thousand-threads/
Neneh Cherry: A Thousand Threads Tuesday 1st October 2024, 7:30pm
St George’s Bristol, Great George Street (off Park Street), Bristol, BS1 5RR
Music icon Neneh Cherry will be joining us in Bristol to discuss her very eagerly anticipated new memoir, A Thousand Threads. You probably don’t need us to tell you what a deep connection Neneh has to the music and cultural life of Bristol, but with a life story incorporating everything from post-punk bands like Rip Rig + Panic to working closely with Massive Attack, it’s fair to say she is integral.
And that’s before you even consider her incredible impact as a solo artist. A string of hit singles and albums (including Buffalo Stance, Manchild, 7 Seconds, we could go on…) and collaborations with Four Tet, Robyn, Cher, Michael Stipe, Geoff Barrow, Tricky, Anohni and countless others, constant musical reinventions, and an as-yet-untold personal story – it’s fair to say we’re excited.
Neneh will be in conversation with author and music journalist Jude Rogers. She will also be signing books after the event.
About Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper and producer who first achieved global success, in 1988, with ‘Buffalo Stance’, her sound a groundbreaking mix of music genres. She has released six critically acclaimed studio albums and won two Brit Awards, a MTV Europe Music Award and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She has collaborated with artists including Peter Gabriel, Cher, Four Tet and Gorillaz. Her most recent album, The Versions, consisting of reworked songs from her back catalogue and featuring SIA, Robyn and others, was released in 2022.
About A Thousand Threads:
Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator.
Activist. Mother. Daughter.
Lover. Friend. Icon.
This is her story.
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry.
‘Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.’ ZADIE SMITH
A Thousand Threads is a beautiful and deeply personal memoir, which weaves the threads of Neneh Cherry’s extraordinary life into her story. From her childhood, growing up in a village in rural Sweden with her musician and artist parents Don and Moki Cherry, to the noise and colour of New York. A Thousand Threads weaves through to Cherry’s start in music with groundbreaking punk bands The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic, to becoming a mother, to inspiring collaborations, life-long friendships and finding her voice, as she rose to global fame with Raw Like Sushi and that iconic debut onto Top of the Pops in 1988.
But navigating fame and family wasn’t always simple. In this vivid memoir, Cherry remembers the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy.
About Jude Rogers
Jude Rogers is the author of The Sound Of Being Human, a memoir in twelve songs that delves deeply into the science of why music moves us.
Jude has written about arts and culture since 2003 for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Times Saturday Review, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Word, MOJO, Q, NME, The Quietus, Wire and The Gentlewoman. She has made acclaimed documentaries for Radio 4, including the 2021 series ‘A Life in Music, and has interviewed artists from Paul McCartney to Dolly Parton, Damon Albarn to Billie Eilish, Laurie Anderson to Michael Stipe, Debbie Harry to the Pet Shop Boys.
Entry requirements: 14+
Neneh Cherry: A Thousand Threads Tuesday 1st October 2024, 7:30pm
St George’s Bristol, Great George Street (off Park Street), Bristol, BS1 5RR
Music icon Neneh Cherry will be joining us in Bristol to discuss her very eagerly anticipated new memoir, A Thousand Threads. You probably don’t need us to tell you what a deep connection Neneh has to the music and cultural life of Bristol, but with a life story incorporating everything from post-punk bands like Rip Rig + Panic to working closely with Massive Attack, it’s fair to say she is integral.
And that’s before you even consider her incredible impact as a solo artist. A string of hit singles and albums (including Buffalo Stance, Manchild, 7 Seconds, we could go on…) and collaborations with Four Tet, Robyn, Cher, Michael Stipe, Geoff Barrow, Tricky, Anohni and countless others, constant musical reinventions, and an as-yet-untold personal story – it’s fair to say we’re excited.
Neneh will be in conversation with author and music journalist Jude Rogers. She will also be signing books after the event.
About Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper and producer who first achieved global success, in 1988, with ‘Buffalo Stance’, her sound a groundbreaking mix of music genres. She has released six critically acclaimed studio albums and won two Brit Awards, a MTV Europe Music Award and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She has collaborated with artists including Peter Gabriel, Cher, Four Tet and Gorillaz. Her most recent album, The Versions, consisting of reworked songs from her back catalogue and featuring SIA, Robyn and others, was released in 2022.
About A Thousand Threads:
Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator.
Activist. Mother. Daughter.
Lover. Friend. Icon.
This is her story.
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry.
‘Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.’ ZADIE SMITH
A Thousand Threads is a beautiful and deeply personal memoir, which weaves the threads of Neneh Cherry’s extraordinary life into her story. From her childhood, growing up in a village in rural Sweden with her musician and artist parents Don and Moki Cherry, to the noise and colour of New York. A Thousand Threads weaves through to Cherry’s start in music with groundbreaking punk bands The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic, to becoming a mother, to inspiring collaborations, life-long friendships and finding her voice, as she rose to global fame with Raw Like Sushi and that iconic debut onto Top of the Pops in 1988.
But navigating fame and family wasn’t always simple. In this vivid memoir, Cherry remembers the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy.
About Jude Rogers
Jude Rogers is the author of The Sound Of Being Human, a memoir in twelve songs that delves deeply into the science of why music moves us.
Jude has written about arts and culture since 2003 for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Times Saturday Review, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Word, MOJO, Q, NME, The Quietus, Wire and The Gentlewoman. She has made acclaimed documentaries for Radio 4, including the 2021 series ‘A Life in Music, and has interviewed artists from Paul McCartney to Dolly Parton, Damon Albarn to Billie Eilish, Laurie Anderson to Michael Stipe, Debbie Harry to the Pet Shop Boys.
Entry requirements: 14+
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