20th October

Lee Harris & The Moonlight Convention - Live @ Paradise
20th October 2011: 8:30pm-11:30pm: FREE
Paradise: Kensal Green, 19 Kilburn Lane, W10

Lee Harris will be performing material from the 2009 album ‘Angel Headed Hip Hop’ & his forthcoming book Echoes of the underground: A Footsoldier’s tale

Also a preview from the forthcoming ‘Moonlight Convention’ album ‘Traipsing Bloom’ (featuring) Daevid Allen - John Sinclair - Youth - River Styx - Nik Turner

Lee Harris - Paul Bangash - Darren Moss - Georgina Brett & more

Lee Harris (born 1936 in Johannesburg, South Africa), is a playwright, publisher, and spoken word artist. He was one of the few white members of the Congress movement, where he helped with the Congress of the People and met Nelson Mandela. He acted with Orson Welles, Dame Flora Robson, wrote for the British underground press including International Times, helped found the Arts Lab and has been an instrumental figure in the British Counter Culture movement since the seventies when he published the legendary Brainstorm Comix by illustrator & graphic novelist Bryan Talbot and Home Grown magazine, which he edited.

Echoes of the underground: A foot soldiers tale is a compendium of Lee Harris’ journalism, interviews and play scripts from the early sixties underground onwards. Selected by Lee Harris, and compiled and edited by Hicham Bensassi, this unique collection of underground writings was originally published in alternative publications such as; International Times, Oz, Home Grown Magazine as well as others.