My TEDx talk on opening Kristen Pfaff's archive for a new book is now out...

I was first inspired to write a book about Kristen Pfaff from Hole when I read her mother, Janet's excellent book about her daughter's life and it contained excerpts from Kristen's diary. An entry in which she describes as a young girl having a conversation with the sea remains the most beautiful piece of writing I've read. So to now be writing her biography with her brother is an honour for me.

The first fruits of the work of the last few years on this front are my TEDx talk on my experience of listening to Kristen Pfaff's previously unheard diary tapes and opening her archive & how this made me re-open the archive from my own youth (and relive my own days of being in bands). Lot’s more new and unheard Kristen Pfaff information to come when the book is out but for now hope this whets your appetite for this book.

To me, like Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix, Kristen Pfaff was an artist with a very pure outlook on the world and her life deserves far more attention than her death-

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