Sat 06 Aug
|York
Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles (Book Talk & Signing)
Author Alex Harvey presents his new book ‘Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles’. Exploring the formative first decade of Tom Waits’ career in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk inflected debut, Closing Time to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones.
Time & Date
06 Aug 2022, 19:00
York, 29 Micklegate, York YO1 6JH, UK
Details
Saturday 6th August
FREE ENTRY
Doors: 7pm
Talk Starts: 7:30pm
Through his new book Song Noir, author Alex Harvey explores the formative first decade of Tom Waits’ career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk inflected debut, Closing Time to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones.
Waits mined a rich seam of the city’s low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination. Mixing the domestic with the mythic, he turned quotidian, autobiographical details into something more disturbing and emblematic; a vision of la as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.