Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture   |   Frank Bangay   |   Ray Willmott

MAD PRIDE: A Celebration of Mad Culture
	eds. TED CURTIS, ROBERT DELLAR, ESTHER LESLIE & BEN WATSON PUBLICATION DATE: GOOD FRIDAY 21ST APRIL 2000 Paperback 23.4 x 15.6cm 224pp 3-colour gloss laminated cover ISBN: 0-9525744-2-X Cover price: £7.95   £9.00 inc p&p UK   £10 overseas READ EXTRACTS NOW
MADNESS: THE NEW ROCK 'N' ROLL...
MAD PRIDE is set to become the first great civil rights movement of the 21st century. Sick of discrimination, marginalisation, medication and being treated like shit, psychiatric patients are preparing to rise from the ghettos and make the world a fit place to live in. Featuring 24 authors boasting about wild things they've done when they've been losing it and sharing their accounts of liberation through madness, this ground-breaking collection celebrates madness in all its forms as a means to all-out social revolution. Shocking, uncompromising, subversive and very funny, this is a book that no one in their right mind will read. It reveals that madness, normally considered an unglamorous subject, is in fact all about sex. drugs and rock 'n' roll. "The stories challenge the usual depressing view of madness, They are lively, alert, interesting and sexy" - The Big Issue. "The most important and radical book about madness since R.D. Laing's The Politics Of Experience... this book is destined to define the platform of the mental health civil rights lobby over the coming decade" - Marjorie Wallace Featuring BEN WATSON, NICK BLINKO, ROBERT DELLAR, LUTHER BLISSET, TED CURTlS  SIMON MORRIS,ESTHER LESLIE, FRANK BANGAY, CHRIS P., LOUISE C., STEPHEN BUDD, PETE SHAUGHNESSEY, MARK ROBERTS; MENTAL PATIENTS UNlON, TIM TELSA, TERRY CONWAY, TERRY SIMPSON, FATMA DURMASH, HANNE OLSEN, DEBBIE MCNAMARA, HUGH MULHALL, JIM MACDOUGAl.L, EDWARD MURRAY and MICHAEL HOWLETT. SPARE CHANGE BOOKS BOX 26 136-138 KINGSLAND HIGH STREET LONDON ES 2NS lNFO/MEDIA: 07931 674453 PUBLIC LAUNCH EVENT                READ EXTRACTS NOW