Background
Ian Penman was born in 1959 in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He spent much of his childhood abroad in the Middle East and Africa, returning to Norfolk in 1970.
(A collection of the writings of Ian Penman, covering cont...)
A collection of the writings of Ian Penman, covering contributions to NME, German Vogue and obscure academic film journals, and pieces on James Garner, Robert De Niro and Lee Marvin, as well as deconstructionist writings on icons ranging from Martin Amis to Frank Zappa.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1852425237/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is...)
When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, legendary music critic Ian Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and ‘cross-colour’ awareness was born.
https://www.amazon.com/Gets-Home-This-Curving-Track/dp/1910695874/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Ian Penman was born in 1959 in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He spent much of his childhood abroad in the Middle East and Africa, returning to Norfolk in 1970.
Ian began his career as a writer for the New Musical Express in 1977. Much of Penman's writing reflected his involvement in the nascent post-punk scene developing in London in the late 1970s. Along with fellow NME writers such as Paul Morley and Barney Hoskyns, Penman soon developed an innovative style of music criticism dense with allusions to critical theory, philosophy, and other art mediums, and often experimental in its prose. Penman continued writing intermittently for the NME until 1985, when the magazine began moving in an increasingly commercial direction.
He began freelance work for various outlets, including The Face, Arena, the Sunday Times, The Independent, and the New Statesman. In the 1990s, he contributed to The Wire. In 1998, Penman published a compilation of his work entitled Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Mania on Serpent's Tail to positive reviews. Penman also contributed the text to the catalogue of photographer Robert Frank's exhibition Storylines in 2004. His most recent work is It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, which was published in 2019.
Penman has been cited as an influence by range of writers and theorists, including Simon Reynolds, Kodwo Eshun, and Mark Fisher. In addition, artists such as Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins have cited Penman's writing as an inspiration.
(A collection of the writings of Ian Penman, covering cont...)
1998(When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is...)
2019
