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    • RESISTANCE MUSIC
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2023 UK TOUR
for
Twist: An American Girl
Now
​Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood

​​ZE Books

DATES, PLACES, TIMES, CONVERSATION PARTNERS w/LINKS

MAY 25 — LONDON. FOYLES, CHARING CROSS.
in conversation with Ali Millar, author of The Last Days
doors open 6:45 PM

MAY 26 — BRIGHTON. JOHN MARCHANT GALLERY.
in conversation
with
author and journalist Amelia Abraham
​and curator and writer Gemma Rolls-Bentley

MAY 27 — GLASGOW. MONORAIL MUSIC.
​in conversation with David Keenan

MAY 31 — DUBLIN. TEMPLE BAR GALLERY + STUDIOS.
in conversation with filmmaker Vivienne Dick and
author, journalist, musician Peter Murphy.

JUNE 6 — LONDON. ROUGH TRADE WEST.
in conversation with Thurston Moore

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Am so excited about these upcoming events in the UK! I cannot wait to speak with Ali Millar about her story of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses. Ali and I had two extremely different, yet utterly bizarre childhoods. We'll be teasing out the threads in London at Foyles. Hope to see you there! I'll be meeting new writers and artists, having conversations about all manner of topics. And I'll be reuniting with my friend the brilliant Irish filmmaker Vivienne Dick, and meeting wordsmith and frontman for Cursed Murphy and the Resistance, Peter Murphy in Dublin at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. I arrive in Ireland on the 28th and will be spending four blissful days in the home of my maternal ancestors.
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Then to Paris for a short vacation with Gail Ann Dorsey, where I'll see her perform with -M-, Matthew Chedid. Back to London for a talk with Thurston Moore, whose memoir will be coming out via Faber in October. Congrats, Thurston! We'll be together at Rough Trade West on June 6th with lost to discuss. Then perhaps back to Dublin? We'll see.
(Am honored to have received an endorsement for Twist from Angela McRobbie, Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths,  c
ultural theorist, feminist, author and commentator. She'll be hosting a talk with me online at Goldsmiths later in the year.  Thank you Angela!)

I'll return to the states on June 15th to mash it'tup with Sandra Bernhard at the Strand Book Store!

Thank you, all of you for showing up at the events on my US tour for TWIST.  The support has been deeply appreciated, and I'm extremely grateful to have been  interviewed on several podcasts and for various sites. The reviews are in and so far, so good,  including a Kirkus star and a mention as one of the 10 most addictive books in 2023 to date. Having never really desired an uncomfortable fit into specific boxes of identity, it was thrilling to have Kirkus describe trifold genres for TWIST, calling it Teen & YA Paranormal & Supernatural,  Teen and YA Mystery & Thriller, and Teen and YA Fantasy. Even though it's memoir, a friend called these descriptions spot-on due to my having magically survived the stories within the pages!

Hearty gratitude to you readers, writers, artists, and all those that took the time to read the book and to speak with me. I usually post on Instagram and FB as podcasts go up, but due to busyness and shows being archived at later dates, I've missed some. ​Two I'd love to point out are germaine to the upcoming UK tour. Craig Charles and I had a truly fun conversation for his show on BBC Radio 6.  And I've known Jim Sclavunos since 1977... 

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Jim Sclavunos interviewed Michael Zilkha (publisher of ZE Books and Twist) and myself for his Soho Radio Show. The 2nd part of the interview, where Jim and I will reminisce about a crazy adventure we had of being thrown off a train in East Germany in 1978(!), will air on Tuesday, May 30th at noon BST. Jim looks like a dashing Rasputin these days! He is also one-half of a duo making music with Nicole Atkins. Their version of Tom Wait's "Strange Weather" couldn't be more on-point to our times. Thank you, Jim. See you in London.

I recently self-released a new music track called AMERICAN ELEGY, now available on all music streaming sites. Please listen. It is about the insanity of mass shootings in this country, and the overall madness we are experincing born of late-stage capitalism and greed.  PLEASE BOYCOTT CNN for broadcasting a
​FASCIST RALLY ( calling it a 'town hall'? pleeeze) and their current attempts to grift the American people of our democracy in exchange for ratings. THIS IS SICK.


Bill Coleman and his team have released my latest track, SAVAGE IS THE WOLF, with dance re-mixes by John "J-C" Carr and JD Samson, on Peace Bisquit Records.
​ If you have Spotify, here's my artist page: 
ADELE BERTEI

There is a time for gentleness and a time for ferocity.  If the only voice in us is reserved for  petty wars with each other, we give the fascists full access to march all over us. This in-fighting makes us more than complicit— we become collaborators when we ignore the true enemies and attack one another. Recognize the enemy. Honor your allies. 
​SILENCE = DEATH.


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Savage is the Wolf
Bertei/Foreman
(Imperial Dagger Music)
 
I’m a shadow in the mirror
you’re a diplomat. imagine that?
I’m a lipstick trace on a gangster’s cheek
a carnival freak
 
I’m a man who wants to rule the seas
and you’re a coward on the run
we’re the broken world, my little girl
I’m the untouched key
remember me?
 
baby’s in the back seat baby can fly
baby’s got a song to sing
love like a landslide waiting to be
calling to the wolf in me

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I’m the bird of restitution
you’re the Nile winding to the sea
I’m the beauty myth. récitatif.
you’re the new world longing to be
blindfolded horse with no name
tell me what you’re thinking
I’m a philistine, a shattering
of a lost country
 
baby’s in the back seat
baby can fly
down to the back streets
nowhere baby, what do you see?
where in the world are we?
heaven’s in the back seat
baby can fly
down to the back streets
nowhere baby
what have we done?
where we gonna run to?
 
run run run run away
we’re not the same
 
ma maladie d’amour
le loup est sauvage
ma fille solitaire
nous avon la même maladie
 
​le loupe en moi
le loup est sauvage
le loupe en toi
le loup est sauvage

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