Richard will be reading at the launch for Richard Foster’s brilliant new collection of short autofiction, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club, at the Social, 5 Little Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1W 7JD. Monday 24th February, 7pm. Tickets are £6 plus booking, available HERE. All proceeds go to charity.

Richard Milward on The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club: ‘A magnificent collection. Like a bouquet of condolence flowers for the casualties of late capitalism, Foster's stories brilliantly capture the alienation and gratification of hard graft in the 21st century with total authenticity and total sensitivity. Taking us on pushbike dérives around the lowlands or chasing the next fleeting high with a motley cast of wreckheads, these are some of the most entertaining, elegant stories I've read about the various ways people struggle and strive to make work work for them.’

More information on the launch:

The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club - Richard Foster - Release Party 

With an author interview by Laura Snapes of The Guardian

Author readings from The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club

Reading by Richard Milward (Apples, Ten Storey Love Song, Man-Eating Typewriter) - more readings tba

Interventions by Wally van Middendorp of Minny Pops (Factory Records ao)

Richard Foster is an artist and writer. He writes regularly about culture and pop music for The Quietus, Caught By the River, The Wire and Louder than War, amongst others. Between 2004 and 2015 he was co-editor of Incendiary Magazine, a Netherlands-based website that focussed on new Dutch underground pop music. Richard's work on the history of Dutch post-punk is published by Routledge, Cambridge Scholars and Intellect Books, amongst others. His debut novel, Flower Factory, was published by Ortac Press in 2022. His new book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club, will be published by Ortac Press on the 14th of February 2025. He runs the Museum of Photocopies and earns a crust through his work as advisor on marketing and communications at WORM, in Rotterdam.