Penny Kiley

March Reviews : Books and Records March Reviews: Books and Records I’ve been listening to and reading.

Some March music and book reviews featuring Edgar Jones, Sunstack Jones, Dead Goat, Alex Fergusson, Screamin' Kick and Penny Kiley.
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London friends, please come and see me and @nndroid.bsky.social chatting about my new book tomorrow night.

Me at Radio Merseyside.

BBC Radio Merseyside looks a bit different from when I used to visit the Paradise Street studios.

See you later!

Looking forward to this!

Never mind 50 years of punk. Here's 50 years of Bagpuss.

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

Atypical Girl: Punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal New Book and book tour

Guest blog on milestones that happened later in life, as well as "punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal" - the themes of my new book. www.advantagesofage.com/p/atypical-g...

Important thread.

Music journalist to release new punk rock memoir Oxfordshire music journalist Penny Kiley’s memoir, Atypical Girl, explores Liverpool’s 1970s punk scene, autism, and self-discovery. Book launch…

March 19 we’ll be @ GulpFiction to hear our very own @pennykiley.bsky.social talk about how she found her niche reporting on a rebellious new music scene in a rebellious city. Thanks @theoxfordmail.bsky.social for the write up.Everyone welcome. Journalism is fab! www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2588694...

Reading, writing and enshittification - Penny Kiley Topical comms and content blog looking at the AI backlash and enshittification.

Monthly #comms and #content blog. Enshittification and the latest in the AI backlash. Plus some things that made me laugh. pennykiley.com/2026/03/02/r...

BOOK REVIEW: PENNY KILEY – ATYPICAL GIRL: PUNK ROCK, LIVERPOOL AND TRYING TO BE NORMAL The Liverpool punk and post-punk scene centring around legendary club Eric’s has been celebrated in a number of books. Performers whose names are indelibly linked with the venue have offered memorable...

"A joy to read."
@andrewneal66.bsky.social reviews Atypical Girl by
@pennykiley.bsky.social
www.silentradio.co.uk/03/02/book-r...

Thank you!

FLA 18: Penny Kiley (18/06/2023) The writer and journalist Penny Kiley was born in Kent, and studied English at Liverpool University, where she found herself at the epicentre of the city’s musical and cultural scene during punk, p…

Great to see that @pennykiley.bsky.social's memoir #AtypicalGirl is coming out. We had an excellent chat about Penny's career and music choices on my textcast #FirstLastAnything in the summer of 2023, and you can read it here. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...

I watched The Fabelmans last night. The message I took away was the importance of editing. Yours, an editor.

YouTube video by kpartride Partridge Family - "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" NEW

OK, this was probably the first time I heard a Neil Sedaka song. Sedaka was an excellent songwriter, but Cassidy was cuter! youtu.be/Q5fPDYPk8YE?...

Books: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow, This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll by Daniel Rachel, Seascraper by Benjamin Wood, Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker

Book: The Nine by Gwen Strauss

Books read in February. I'm trying to read all the books on the Penderyn Music Book Prize longlist. Front runner so far (apart from Budgie's) is Everything We Do is Music by Elizabeth Alker. I learnt new things and it made me want to listen to the music she was describing.

I hope so! And thank you.

Eric’s, Liverpool, 1977 A sneak preview of my memoir

Want a sneak preview of my memoir Atypical Girl (out next week)? There's one on my latest Substack. This is the pic they used for the book cover - me aged 20. I think that T-shirt is still in the loft.
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Gorton and Denton byelection: Polanski says Greens best party to defeat Reform after Hannah Spencer wins – UK politics live Reform UK finished second and Labour is pushed into third place in bad news for PM Keir Starmer

"This is Manchester. We do things differently here." Nice to see a line penned by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social in the new Manchester MP's speech. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OK. Couldn't resist.

Lovely review by Julianne Regan.

ATYPICAL GIRL BOOK LAUNCH WITH PENNY KILEY Punk Rock, Liverpool & Trying To Be Normal. In conversation with Andrew Harrison.

In two weeks:Tuesday 10 March

We welcome @pennykiley.bsky.social to Walthamstow talking punk rock, Liverpool, writing, autism and more with @nndroid.bsky.social
Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982185303...

Spent the last few days reading @pennykiley.bsky.social's memoir Atypical Girl. It's about punk, post-punk & Liverpool. But its also about quietness, grief & a sense of frustration (sometimes turned inwards). I liked it a lot

Thank you for that very thoughtful response.

Did you read the interview in the Guardian mag recently? He is way more scary than F*rage.

The government's SEND reform plan: good intentions, progressive instincts – and a terrifying loss of rights The eventual scything-down of Education, Health and Care Plans threatens to leave families stranded

And if you want even more on the SEND reform plan, here's a piece on my (free!) Substack maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/the-govern...

Image shows front cover of Atypical Girl by Penny Kiley, her forthcoming memoir. Photo of Penny in black t shirt against wall with Jonathan Richman poster

Penny Kiley’s Atypical Girl is a brilliant memoir about punk, Eric’s and the search for identity.
I’ll be in conversation with Penny at the British Music Experience
Liverpool, 5 March.
DJ set from Eric’s DJ Norman Killon. @pennykiley.bsky.social Details:
www.britishmusicexperience.com/pennykiley

"You would really have thought the creative sector would always have a space for creative people and ingenuity."

“Ornithological taxonomy is second nature to us birders, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the scientific names of a handful of garden birds.” “And gulls, of course.” “Of course.” Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

This is fun. Generate your own xkcd2501.

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