Smash Hits Poll Winners Party: Michael Cragg Author Interview and Pop Party

Sat Jul 15 2023 at 07:00 pm to 11:59 pm

Wigwam | Dublin

Pop Emergencies
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Smash Hits Poll Winners Party: Michael Cragg Author Interview and Pop Party
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Pop Emergencies presents an interview and Q&A with author Michael Cragg and a Y2K pop dance party with DJ Lou Bru
About this Event

From Girl Power to Girls Aloud (and everything in between), Michael Cragg's 'Reach for the Stars' is the definitive study of British and Irish pop music at the turn of the millennium, told by everyone who was there.

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls on the pop scene as a jumping-off point, the book uses oral history to explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006. A double-denim-loving time before the glare of social media and the accession of streaming.

Compiled from interviews with popstars, songwriters, producers, choreographers, magazine editors, record-company executives, TV moguls and more, this is a complete behind-the-scenes history of the last great movement in British pop – a technicolour turning-point ripe for re-evaluation, documented here in astonishing, honest and eye-opening detail.

Join Michael Cragg as he sits down with journalist Louise Bruton for an interview and audience Q&A to discuss this magnificent era.

Stay on afterwards to swing it, shake it, move it, make it at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. From your A1s to your zig-ah-zig-ahs, DJ Lou Bru has got you covered.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Wigwam, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, Ireland

Tickets

EUR 12.00 to EUR 30.00

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