first subject focuses on DIY tradition – from punk rock fanzines to trend, artwork faculty to dole queues, four-track dwelling cassette demos to high-tech studios – a ragged map to assist additional exploration and, hopefully, to encourage but extra creation. Challenge 1 might be available for purchase at Farsight Gallery from 1st March 2025. Register your curiosity for on-line gross sales and different shops at www.rocknrollpl.com/journal
To mark the launch of the journal, an experiential exhibition of The Rock & Roll Public Library might be open to the general public on the Farsight Gallery, London from 1st – sixteenth March 2025. Essentially the most complete and in-depth exhibition of the RRPL to this point, showcasing beforehand unseen materials and artefacts, the exhibition will have a good time over-the-counter-culture, that includes parts of bookshops, newsstands, comedian guide shops, report outlets and video rental libraries. This can be a celebration of pre-digital – the analogue, the bodily popular culture historical past of the twentieth century and past.
Chosen by Mick Jones and the RRPL group, highlights of the exhibition will embody: a phantasmagoric recreation of a lounge the place guests can use gadgets from the archive akin to Mick’s dwelling recorded VHS tapes, books, comics and newspapers from one other time; friends can flick through and take heed to a choice of his report assortment in a recreation of a 1970’s listening sales space; plus a visible artwork set up within the model of a Kiosk that can promote the journal and different bespoke RRPL merchandise.
The Rock & Roll Public Library might be open to the general public at Farsight Gallery, 4 Flitcroft Road, London WC2H 8DJ from 1st – sixteenth March 2024. 12 midday – 7pm every day. For extra data, go to www.rocknrollpl.com
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The Rock & Roll Public Library (RRPL) is a set of largely twentieth century popular culture, an archive encompassing tens of hundreds of things, together with books, comics, magazines, musical tools, artwork, clothes and ephemera, in addition to music and movie in each format.
Collected over a lifetime by British musician, songwriter and producer Mick Jones (The Conflict, Large Audio Dynamite). The RRPL reveals an online of influences that span your complete twentieth century—a cultural historical past informed by context, connection, and juxtaposition – it’s an in depth assortment which is ever-growing and at all times evolving.
There may be few locations the place scarce beat poetry pamphlets sit amongst a household of Simpsons Pez dispensers, or the place Al Capone’s tie rests subsequent to cigarette playing cards of royalty. The distinctive nature of the RRPL comes from the truth that it tells the story of fashionable tradition by way of on a regular basis gadgets and ephemeral objects as a lot because it does by way of invaluable historic artifacts.