Winter Garden Books To Release “Glitter & Glue” Deluxe Book

Glitter & Glue is a new deluxe book from Winter Garden Books that will be released on the 3rd April, the book presents an extensive and unique archive of rock ‘n’ roll ephemera, the core of which was assembled by Dave Twist during his teenage years between 1972 and 1979. While chronicling his own fan-rampage, from the freak rock glamour of the early 70s through to punk, the collection also represents the journey that pretty much everyone involved in the early UK punk scene will have travelled, at least part of the way. The first book to cover this extended timeframe with the full range of ephemera available, with some dedication, to the provincial teenage fan, Glitter & Glue features over 200 colour layouts displaying magazines, fanzines, posters and flyers, badges, picture sleeve singles, rare long-players and rarer cassette tapes. This is all accompanied by detailed notes on each piece and the author’s personal recollections. A second section of the book features artefacts and photography relating to his own adventures, alongside Duran Duran‘s John Taylor in Shock Treatment and Dada, playing in Birmingham’s first punk band The Prefects, and with Stephen Duffy and The Jacobites‘ Dave Kusworth in The Hawks. Glitter & Glue includes forewords from John Taylor (Duran Duran) and Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) and can be pre-ordered via Easy Action Records.

Dave Twist is a graphic designer and drummer. With a first-class honours degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, he also worked for twenty years as a secondary school art teacher. Born in 1960, he was converted to rock ‘n’ roll upon witnessing the Alice Cooper group on Top Of The Pops in May of 1972. Always more visually attuned than sonically, the printed ephemera wrapped around the music held a special fascination. Forming a punk band in 1977 with childhood friend John Taylor, he went on to play and record with The Prefects, including their much anthologised second John Peel session. A member of both TV Eye and The (Subterranean) Hawks, he continued to record and tour with Dave Kusworth and design for Dave and Nikki Sudden over four decades of friendship. Twist also compiled and designed Un-Scene!, a double-album collecting post punk recordings from his home city, and appears in the Stewart Lee / Michael Cumming documentary King Rocker.