I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1981 w/ Angela Jaeger

Thursday, June 19: 7:00 PM

Live From Upstate
Part of our Foreword! Author series
Free for Upstate Films members!

Author Angela Jaeger will talk about her new book accompanied by video and a conversation with music writer Holly George-Warren, followed by a book signing. Drawn from her actual diaries as a teenage music enthusiast living in the East Village, Angela’s story charts her late adolescence, going from observer of the nascent punk scene to eager participant. Gradually becoming a nightly fixture at CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, by 1978 she followed the Clash on a tour, then returned home to start her own band. The diary entries are interspersed with her drawings of punk personalities and fans + photos and ephemera.

“These teenage diaries crackle with life, giving us a real-time immersion, with zero revisionism, into not only what happened and who was there, but how it felt to a musically fanatical teenage girl.” — The Guardian

Angela Jaeger is a singer, writer, and teacher who founded the late 70’s No Wave band the Stare Kits and has recorded with Pigbag, Bush Tetras, Trevor Horn, David Cunningham, and The Monochrome Set, amongst others. A born and bred New Yorker who has lived in Barcelona and London, she currently resides in Brooklyn.

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