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"No-One’s More Punk than Vivien Goldman,” pronounced Pitchfork Magazine. In that freewheeling spirit, the boundary-busting Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator, broadcaster -- and a musician who has contributed to The Slits, X-Ray Specs and of course Flying Lizards, too. A Londoner, she has lived in Paris and Jamaica and now resides in New York. She started out in the vigorous British rock press of the 1970s, often working with Bob Marley (whom she is accredited with discovering and is the subject of two of her books).

She considers Bob, Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman and The Slits her mentors and greatest personal influences. Known as a pioneer of music journalism, music television, modern musicology, experimental recording, and most recently for the first time in her long career - the stage, she has stunned New York and beyond with her new very Jamaican-influenced live band: Vivien Goldman at Elsewhere.