COLD LIPS
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Cold Lips began as a zine with parties internationally and now makes books and music releases. Founded by writer Kirsty Allison, her debut novel, PSYCHOMACHIA is out now. She is editor of Ambit, est. 1959, and performs as Vagrant Lovers with the musician, filmmaker and partner Cold Lips' co-director Gil De Ray.
www.coldlips.co.uk
www.kirstyallison.com
IRVINE WELSH “the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced”
TIME OUT: "Proving bookish folk are the coolest folk"
Dr John Cooper Clarke: "Cold Lips is artistic and fabulous"
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Episodes
Jón Sæmundur Auðarson of Dead Skeletons with his paintings at Icelandic Embassy
June 04, 2022 12:06 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBJón Sæmundur Auðarson of Dead Skeletons with his paintings at Icelandic Embassy talks about the impending volcano explosions, HIV, Hep C, strong tea with Kirsty Allison. There is a film version of this online made by Gil De Ray Insta @coldlips_ and Cold Lips website and Gil De Ray and Cold Lips YouTube.
Martin Green x Kirsty Allison (Cold Lips)
January 28, 2022 10:29 - 46 minutes - 85.8 MBKirsty Allison speaks with legend DJ Martin Green about the 90s. Without Martin Green, would there be Britpop? His weekly club night Smashing, defined an era in underground culture, and was the coolest club of the 90s.
GOTH SHOP X COLD LIPS with Derek Ridgers
December 10, 2020 21:44 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBSome people earn the tag of legend - and for five decades Derek Ridgers, the London-based photographer has captured the Dark Carnival of the British underworld in our most radical club nights, from Blitz and Skin Two through to today’s Wraith Club. Growing up in the 60s, and making his name photographing punk clubs, and taking rock shots of the world’s greatests, he is a hero to many working photographers and fans of subculture, alike. Humble, brilliant, and with a rock n roll gallows hum...
Rob Doyle x Kirsty Allison, Berlin
September 28, 2020 18:20 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBRecorded September 2020, on a balcony in the east, looking down towards the spree river with Berghain between. I’m sitting with Rob Doyle, the author of my favourite book so far this year, Threshold. It's published in the UK and the US by Bloomsbury, so he takes throne as a leader in a new school of digital existentialist modernists, who take a post-millenial ego, and ask questions about the Author’s physical space on the page. Rob Doyle is very tall, he appears at the door wearing a blac...
Danielle De Picciotto x Kirsty Allison
September 03, 2020 13:16 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBRecorded February 2020, at Studio 65 in Wedding, Berlin, when Cold Lips released Martyn Goodacre's Whos Fuckin Planet book to accompany his exhibition as Das Gift Released in anticipation of Danielle De Picciotto's GESAMTKUNSTWERK show at Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin. 12 September > 03 October where Kirsty Allison will be artist/writer in residence with Gil De Ray Please do support these efforts by subscribing to kirstyallison.substack.com
Mehmet Sander with Kirsty Allison
August 07, 2020 09:54 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBKirsty Allison took part in Mehmet Sander's life changing workshop at the Chisenhale Dance Space. His world-class 'action architecture' defies EVERYTHING in contemporary dance. Punk, hardcore, radical, revolutionary. https://coldlips.co.uk/2018/07/05/mehmet-sander-dance-company/ https://youtu.be/K3RIteQb5p4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR50gEdpKwc
Dave Randall with Kirsty Allison
July 11, 2020 18:18 - 47 minutes - 44 MBThis interview was recorded in St Giles churchyard in Camberwell, London, 3 July 2020. Dave Randall is the author of Sound System – The Political Power of Music (Pluto Press 2017) and guitarist, producer and composer. His own critically acclaimed albums released under the name Slovo feature international collaborations with artists including Iceland's Emiliana Torrini, West Africa's Maezah and US jazz legend Max Roach. He has contributed to Grammy Award winning albums by Dido and has t...
Martyn Goodacre with Kirsty Allison, Cold Lips
May 05, 2020 18:57 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBPhotographer, Martyn Goodacre is perhaps best known for his iconic shots of Kurt Cobain. But in his first book publication, WHOS FUCKIN PLANET, limited to 100 editions, with a belly band lino cut by Kirsty Allison (available on www.coldlips.co.uk), he tells the story of free land before the Criminal Justice Act (1994), and how music led to him squatting the Fire Station on the Old Kent Road, which hosted early gigs for Psychic TV, Jesus & Mary Chain and many more. In this meeting in Ber...
Mark Reeder with Kirsty Allison
April 22, 2020 11:29 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBBerlin legend, Mark Reeder - moved from working class Manchester in the late 70s, to rep Factory Records, and put on illegal punk gigs in East Berlin, which led to him being recruited as a GDR producer, after being grassed by Stasi friends. In the seminal film, B-Movie - he explores the 80s in Berlin, but here he speaks candidly to Kirsty Allison about his McLaren-type Svengali effect on subculture, shaping the sound of New Order, trance in the 90s, and how he's currently impacting China ...
Dr John Cooper Clarke with Kirsty Allison
April 20, 2020 18:34 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBRecorded on the rooftop of The Union Club in London's Soho, accompanied by martinis, before a Polaroid session, which adorned the second edition of Cold Lips, prior to headlining the legendary launch party at Hoxton's Courtyard Theatre in 2016, the mighty Dr John Cooper Clarke raps with Cold Lips' founder and editor, Kirsty Allison https://kirstyallison.substack.com https://coldlips.co.uk Artwork by Luke McLean https://www.iamlukemclean.com Edited by Sebastian Bowden
TRICKY with Cold Lips' editor Kirsty Allison
October 30, 2019 19:36 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBTRICKY IS THE OLD SCHOOL OVERLORD OF BRITISH HIP-HOP - his new book Hell Is Around The Corner is out now - and it is splendid. It's rare to meet iconoclasts on the level of Tricky - born Adrian Thaws - mother dying of suicide/epilepsy at 4 - and it’s an honour to learn and be infected by people like this. I’m a huge fan, and I remember first meeting him for DJMag in a flat, opposite Sketch, he answered the door in a white dressing gown, and I was in a bluesman palace - with as much dope as...