All posts by Nick Soulsby

Nick Soulsby is the author of Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations With Coil (2022); Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019); Swans: Sacrifice And Transcendence (2018); Thurston Moore: We Sing A New Language (2017); Cobain On Cobain: Interviews & Encounters (2016); I Found My Friends: The Oral History Of Nirvana (2015); and Dark Slivers: Seeing Nirvana In The Shards Of Incesticide (2012). His words feature in an upcoming book on artist Marc Hurtado and The Abrahadabra Letters by John Balance/Anthony Blokdijk. In 2014 he curated No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds Of The North West Grunge Era with Soul Jazz Records, wrote the liner notes for the re-release of We Are Urusei Yatsura (2022), and also the oral history of Fire Ants for the reissue of their 1993 EP Stripped. In 2024, he completed two new works on the noise/anti-art group The New Blockaders and on the history of the Centro Iberico anarchist centre and anarcho-punk venue 1971-1983.

The Watkins Book of Urban Legends

Engaging and insightful, rekindling the joyousness in the contemplation of the “it’s true, I swear!” secondhand stories we all tell.

/ October 14, 2024