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 a music journalist , born on 25 September 1967 in the Welsh town of Barry. He is now best known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday, his book on Manic Street Preachers[1] and his unusual hairstyle.
He made his name at Melody Maker, where he worked from December 1988 to December 1997. His first article was a review of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live in Paris, and his last an interview with veteran rap act Salt-N-Pepa. He was heavily involved with the short-lived Romo scene in the mid-1990s. His journalism at Melody Maker was sometimes criticised by the more "laddish" readers for what they saw as an overtly intellectual style and for his criticism of bands such as Oasis. He also courted controversy with his view that the hippie/crusty scene of the time was covertly racist due to what he saw as an overtly romantic nostalgia for a bygone rural England.
Simon has been interviewed on the subject of Manic Street Preachers and is known to hold strong views on the band and their fans.
"Famously, there are two types of Manics fans. I think everyone's got the old fan/new fan thing wrong. Everyone thinks the older fans are the ones who really understand the band and the younger ones are just bandwagon jumpers. I think it's the other way round. Anyone over the age of 25 at a Manics gig, probably only got into them with 'A Design For Life', whereas anyone under twenty is probably obsessed and knows everything Richey Edwards ever said. They've read all the books he ever quoted. They dress like him, they're totally hardcore."[2]
Price also runs an alternative 80s night Spellbound in Brighton. He is vegetarian, and strongly left-wing politically.