Plenty of artists who came up in the punk movement burned brightly, then faded away. Not New York’s Patti Smith, who we first heard from with her seminal 1975 album Horses, and has been an artistic super-woman ever since, releasing a subsequent 10 albums as well as numerous books of poetry and a memoir, Just Kids, which won the 2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction. On top of that, she’s a critically acclaimed painter, filmmaker and photographer. Makes you feel lazy, doesn’t it?
Rightly revered as one punk’s most intelligent, brave and relentlessly creative artists, Smith makes for a terrific interview, as proved by Mary Anne Hobbs, who Smith truly opened up to last year on 6 Music. She comes to Glastonbury off the back of performing Horses in full at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Think that crowd was big, Patti? That was nothing compared to this.
Plenty of artists who came up in the punk movement burned brightly, then faded away. Not New York’s Patti Smith, who we first heard from with her seminal 1975 album Horses, and has been an artistic super-woman ever since, releasing a subsequent 10 albums as well as numerous books of poetry and a memoir, Just Kids, which won the 2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction. On top of that, she’s a critically acclaimed painter, filmmaker and photographer. Makes you feel lazy, doesn’t it?
Rightly revered as one punk’s most intelligent, brave and relentlessly creative artists, Smith makes for a terrific interview, as proved by Mary Anne Hobbs, who Smith truly opened up to last year on 6 Music. She comes to Glastonbury off the back of performing Horses in full at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Think that crowd was big, Patti? That was nothing compared to this.
