A list of dates, readings, broadcasts, articles, festivals and hybrid events around the launch of Richard’s latest book, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club.
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 2025
Thursday 7 – “Robbie Williams is Hot Right Now“: five live extracts from The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club with Rats on Rafts: Halden Pop Festival, Haldern, (DE). 13.00-13.40 Jugendheim.
Wednesday 13 – Pop up reading The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club @ WORM, The Foyer, 19.30-20.30
Wednesday 20 – Pop up reading Flower Factory @ WORM, The Foyer, 19.30-20.30
Sunday 24 – “An Interview with Richard Foster” Krankenhaus festival, Ravenglass, Cumbria (UK) 11.00-11.40 Old Laundry.
September 2025
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 – European Writers Salon, Brussels (BE)
September 17 – 27 – International dates to come (Vilnius LT, Riga LV)
October 2025
Friday 10 – Reading at East Bristol Books: Bristol (UK)
Friday 17- Sunday 19 – TBC – Leiden International Film Festival: A screening of the short film with readings from The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club
PAST EVENTS
February 2025
Friday 14 – publication day The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club, on Ortac Press. Order your copy here.
Sunday 16 – Louder than War book review
Monday 17 – The Quietus feature: Things I Have Learned about Punk Rock Birdwatching.
Friday 21 – Guest appearance – Friday Evening with Geoff Norcott – Times Radio – live – around 9pm.
Saturday 22 – Live reading at The Victoria Dalston with Rats on Rafts. Stage time (approx) 20:45.
Monday 24 – Launch Party – The Social, London. Author interview by Laura Snapes (The Guardian), readings by Richard Milward (Maneating Typewriter ea), performance by Wally van Middendorp (Minny Pops). Books on sale. All door proceeds to the CentrePoint charity.
March 2025
Friday 7 – Author reading. – Broedplaats Hellema, Zaandam – From 17:00 onwards. With De Delegatie (NL garage rock), other readings Lies Helms (poetry). Limited number of books on sale.
Saturday 8 – NL Launch Party – De Wakende Haan, Leiden. From 15:00 onwards. With: birdwatching bingo and quizz, readings, author interview. Books on sale.
Wednesday 12 – Guest on The Library of Lazy Thinking Podcast. Host: Glenn Fisher. (Richard talks about Ending Up, by Kingsley Amis)
Friday 14 – Haldern Pop Bar and shop, Rees-Haldern, NRW, Germany. Readings, author interview. Books on sale.
Sunday 16 – NL Launch Party 2 Katzwijm Studios, Voorhout. With readings, author interview. Music from Niels Duffhues. And specially brewed Punkrock Birdwatching beer. Books on sale.
Thursday 20 – Guest on Northern Voices Podcast. Host: Jen Bowden.
Saturday 22 – Reading during Peel Slowly and See Festival, Leiden.
Saturday 29 – Author reading. De Klarist, Den Haag. Weimarstraat 319. 20.00 doors, 21.00-21.30 Richard Foster, 21.30-21.50 Dear Variant, 22.00-22.30 Lila, 22.30-22.50 Dear Variant, 23.00-00.00 DJ Richard(!) Books on sale.
April 2025
Saturday 19 – Concerto Amsterdam. Utrechtsestraat 52-60. 13:00 – 15:00 (finish sharp). A meet-up of four celebrated British and American contemporary writers with strong links to Amsterdam.
Chad Bilyeu – aka “Chad in Amsterdam” – still lives and works in Mokkum. His graphic novel series, Chad in Amsterdam, and The Re-Up brilliantly chronicle the hassles and hustles of everyday life.
Ali Millar lived here in the early 2000s: she is well-known for her uncompromising titles Ada, Anna, Ava and The Last Days – in which she touches on her time here.
Jeff Young lived in the Amsterdam squat scene in the early 1980s, a time he captures san pareil in his latest book, Wild Twin.
Richard Foster lives in Leiden and works R*tterd*m. His autofiction novels Flower Factory and The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club chronicle the counterculture of the Bollenstreek and Randstad in the early 2000s…
Monday 28 – Reading at De Pletterij, Haarlem.
May 2025
Sunday 4 – Reading and deejay set at Cafe Hensepeter, Rotterdam.