Lush co-founder Miki Berenyi comes to The Ivy House in Nunhead for an evening of talk about her memoir, Fingers Crossed. The Rock & Roll Book Club is hosting, and the night is built around a live conversation rather than a reading.
The book follows her from a childhood spent between bohemian circles and the glamour of her mother's acting career, through the teenage years that led her to music and to forming Lush in the London gig scene of the late 1980s. It covers the band's rise and fall, the difficult managers and tours, and her own struggles with identity and with being a woman in the music industry. It also looks at her long and shifting relationship with Emma Anderson and the death of bandmate Chris Acland.
Expect frank, funny and emotionally direct storytelling. The evening also includes an audience Q&A, a book signing and music.
