Lipstick and Leather: In Conversation with Kim Hawes

Saturday 30 November 2024, 2pm

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Kim Hawes has worked in the music industry for over 40 years with some of the biggest and baddest bands there are.

 

She blagged her way into working merchandise for Elvis Costello which led to a job merchandising for Rush all around Europe. She spent many years sleeping underneath Lemmy from Motorhead. That is on a tour bus. She toured with Black Sabbath just as Ronnie James Dio entered the band and they unleashed Heaven & Hell on the world. She threw Madonna off her stage, turned Courtney Love down, had to say no to Nelson Mandela, and had to deal with the aftermath of Chumbawumba drenching the deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

 

Yes there are tales of Sex, Drugs & Rock’N’Roll, debauchery and fights, suitcases full of cash and Hells Angels….there might even be a TV thrown out of a window, but Kim’s story is so much more. Her memoir Lipstick and Leather is a rollercoaster ride of Rock’N’Roll anecdotes as well as being a serious introduction to the world of touring and the struggles that Kim faced as a woman in a male-dominated industry and how she refused to compromise.

 

Strap in, this is no joyride as Lipstick and Leather shatters the myths of some of Rock’N’ Rolls' legends.

 

Kim Hawes. Encouraging the minorities to become priorities.

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This event is taking place in our Star Café & Bar and is free to attend - seats are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.  Kim's book, Lipstick and Leather, will be on sale at the event.

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