Moazzam Begg
Moazamm Begg is a former Guantanamo bay detainee, who was released in 2005 without charge. A British citizen coming from a indian background. Mr Begg is a well-knowm commentator on issues affecting the muslim community and society in general. He is the director for Cageprisoners, which is a prisoners organisation, which helps detainees in Guantanamo and othe illlegal prisons. He has toured around Britain with former Guantanamo guard Christopher Arendt to speak about the injustices and false imprisonment of ordinary citizens. He has appeared on various radio and tv shows, including BBC’S Panorama, Newsnight and Aljazeera. Begg is the author of the book: ‘ Enemy Combatant: A British's Muslim Journey To Guantanamo and Back, which he co- wrote with Victoria Brittain. It speaks about his experiences in Guantanamo. Begg now lives in Birmingham with his wife and four children.
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Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley is a man who has done everything in a culture where people are famous for doing nothing. In the tradition of Byron, Thomas DeQuincy, Oscar Wilde and Quentin Crisp… at last we have a new English eccentric.
Eirini Kartsaki
Eirini Kartsaki creates performance work, which is about and from the body and explores the thrill and wonder of eroticism, discovering, through the physicality of movement and the repetitive storytelling that, ultimately, what we want is to want. It combines fictional and autobiographical narratives with coarse imagery in order to explore the solitude of desiring and the enigmatic nature of wanting.
Eirini has presented performance work in the UK (291 Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, The Place, The Rag Factory, etc) and elsewhere (Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Man-in-Fest Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Her last solo work 'Cock tales and ballads' has been presented in East End Collaborations, CPT and Arnolfini. She is currently finishing her doctoral project at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also a Visiting Lecturer.
Roz Kaveney
Roz Kaveney is a writer, critic and activist working in London as a publisher's reader. She reviewes extensively, most often for the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent; her books include Reading the Vampire Slayer, From Alien to The Matrix, Teen Dreams and Superheroes! She has edited and contributed to a number of sf and fantasy anthologies. She has an active net presence, and has a LiveJournal as RozK. She will be talking about her critical work and reading recent fiction and poems.
Simon Price
Simon Price is Rock & Pop Critic for the Independent On Sunday, and has worked as a music journalist for over 25 years, including nine years at Melody Maker, when he interviewed everyone from Public Enemy to 2 Unlimited and Courtney Love to Kylie Minogue. He wrote the first-ever piece on Suede, gave Rage Against The Machine and the Wu-Tang Clan their first British interviews, and Richey Edwards his last.
The Cardiff-born writer has also worked for The Guardian, The Word, Attitude, Time Out, Penthouse, The Quietus, Metro and, in one shameful concession to Murdoch’s media, The Times.His first and only book ‘Everything [A Book About Manic Street Preachers]’ was widely acclaimed and became the fastest-selling rock biography in UK history. He was about to start work on the official biography of The Darkness - a band he discovered - but they promptly split up.
He is a regular contributor to BBC radio and television, and moonlights as a club DJ, running alternative nights like Stay Beautiful (London) and Spellbound (Brighton).Known for his strong views on subjects such as class, politics, animal rights, religion and the music industry, he firebombed a church when he was 15, but nowadays favours less hazardous methods of getting his message across.