Sex Is No Emergency - Paperback

Sex Is No Emergency

Adventures in a post punk wonderland

by Dorothy Max Prior

ISBN: 9781913689810

432 pp. | 210x146mm

50+ photographs in BW & Colour.

Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed memoir 69

Exhibition Road.

In this new volume focussing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her life as it becomes ever more surreal and bemusing: days drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV; exploring London and New York City’s queer clubbing undergrounds; weaving through the tangled worlds of the UK’s indie music scene at the height of its influence. Not to mention ballroom dancing, birthing babies, breastfeeding, and moving to Brighton to become a performance artist.

Wise, wry, and endlessly charming, this is a sparkling account of bold, adventurous creativity featuring cameos from Björk, Derek Jarman, Madonna, Ray Harryhausen and a host of others.

(PTV T shirt art featuring Max, by Val Denham)

Praise for 69 Exhibition Rd:

One of the best, and most surprising, memoirs from that period. I absolutely loved

it. Dylan Jones: GQ, i-D, Arena; author of These Foolish Things

A treasure trove of a life in punk and post punk. The next best thing to actually

being there. Mark Moore, S’Express and Umami Records; Madam JoJo’s DJ

Max’s adventures in a kind of wonderland are intimate, gossipy and funny, like the

confidences of a really cool best friend. Cathi Unsworth, author of Season of The

Witch: The Book of Goth

A rollicking adventure bursting with vividdetails. Max and her creatively iconoclastic

peers defied the stultifying conservatism of 1970s Britain and forged a technicolour

world of their own making. Andrea Feldman, Warped Reality Magazine

Max was there – from proto-punk performing and the early punk rock Sex shop scene, to drumming at the beginning of Adam and the Ants and the Monochrome Set, then on through post-punk with Rema-Rema and cyber-psychedelic-punk with Psychic TV.

Tom Vague